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The urban image of late antique Constantinople / Sarah Bassett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xxi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 052182723X
  • 9780521827232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 733.09398 22
LOC classification:
  • NB85 .B375 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The shape of the city -- 2. Creating the collection -- 3. The Constantinian collections -- 4. Theodosian Constantinople -- 5. The Lausos collection -- 6. Justinian and antiquity -- The catalogue -- Amastrianon -- Artopoleion -- Augusteion -- Augusteion senate -- Basilika -- Baths of Constantine -- Baths of Zeuxippos -- Chalke gate -- Forum of Arkadios -- Forum of Constantine -- Forum of Theodosios/Forum Tauri -- Golden gate -- Hippodrome -- Lausos collection -- Million -- Palace of Marina -- Philadelphia -- Strategeion -- Unspecified location.
Review: "From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople reconstructs the collection from the time that the city was founded by Constantine the Great through the sixth-century reign of the Emperor Justinian. Drawing on medieval literary sources and, to a lesser extent, graphic and archaeological material, it identifies and describes the antiquities that were known to have stood in the city's public spaces. Individual displays of statues are analyzed as well as examined in conjunction with one another against the city's topographical setting, in an effort to understand how ancient sculpture was used to create a distinct historical identity for Constantinople."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 733.09398 BAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A292756B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The shape of the city -- 2. Creating the collection -- 3. The Constantinian collections -- 4. Theodosian Constantinople -- 5. The Lausos collection -- 6. Justinian and antiquity -- The catalogue -- Amastrianon -- Artopoleion -- Augusteion -- Augusteion senate -- Basilika -- Baths of Constantine -- Baths of Zeuxippos -- Chalke gate -- Forum of Arkadios -- Forum of Constantine -- Forum of Theodosios/Forum Tauri -- Golden gate -- Hippodrome -- Lausos collection -- Million -- Palace of Marina -- Philadelphia -- Strategeion -- Unspecified location.

"From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople reconstructs the collection from the time that the city was founded by Constantine the Great through the sixth-century reign of the Emperor Justinian. Drawing on medieval literary sources and, to a lesser extent, graphic and archaeological material, it identifies and describes the antiquities that were known to have stood in the city's public spaces. Individual displays of statues are analyzed as well as examined in conjunction with one another against the city's topographical setting, in an effort to understand how ancient sculpture was used to create a distinct historical identity for Constantinople."--BOOK JACKET.

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