Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107008239 ISBN 13: 9781107008236

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This book investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Bonna D. Wescoat is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University, Atlanta and Director of the Institute of Fine Arts excavations at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Greece. Her research concentrates on ancient Greek sacred architecture and iconography. Recent works include The Temple of Athena at Assos (2012) and The Monuments of the Eastern Hill (Samothrace) (2015).

Robert G. Ousterhout is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Center for Ancient Studies. A specialist in Byzantine art and architecture, his research focuses on the vanishing architectural heritage of the Eastern Mediterranean. He is the author of numerous books, including Master Builders of Byzantium, 2nd edition (2008), The Byzantine Monuments of the Evros/Meric River Valley (2007, with Ch. Bakirtzis), and A Byzantine Settlement in Cappadocia, 2nd edition (2011).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1107008239
• ISBN 13: 9781107008236
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385
• Herausgeber: Wescoat Bonna D., Ousterhout Robert G.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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