Sarah Bassett (Detroit Wayne State University)

The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivaled by any city of the medieval world. This book reconstructs the collection drawing on medieval literary sources, graphic, and archaeological material.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780521030847
• ISBN-10: 0521030846
• Artikelnr.: 22208048

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bassett is Associate Professor of Art History at Wayne State University. A scholar of late antique and Byzantine art, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Dumbarton Oaks. She has contributed to Dumbarton Oaks Papers,The American Journal of Archaeology, and The Art Bulletin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Periodicals: abbreviations
Primary sources
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
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
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.