Byzantine Periods and Styles History
Byzantine Periods and Styles History
Byzantine
The style which developed in the Eastern Roman Empire (330-1453) in which Classical precepts were no longer strictly observed and new influences from the East were integrated. Its greatest monuments are its basilican and cross-in-square plan churches.
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- Photographs of two magnificent Byzantine churches in Ravenna: St. Apollinare in Classe (530-549) and San Vitale (526-547) from Leo Masuda's History of Western Architecture.
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- Background information and photographs of the Haghia Sophia and other monuments if Constantinople, for 1000 years the capital of the Hellenic (Greek) Empire of Byzantium.
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- A non-profit project creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine monuments of Constantinople (now Istanbul) as they stood in 1200 AD.
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- Photographs of the defences of the Topkapi Palace, the Sea walls, the Yedikule Fortress and parts of the Theodosian Land walls by Stephen Francis Wyley.
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- San Jose State University provides an extensive gallery of expandable photographs, accessed by pull-down menu and selection from an array. Basic information given for each.
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