Constantinople to Córdoba

Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21246-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 998 g

A survey of the various ways in which the extensive remains of ancient architecture were reused or destroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkey through Syria, Palestine, North Africa to Islamic Spain. The book complements and echoes some of the themes in the author's "Marble Past, Monumental Present" (2009). Offering a large number of varied examples, it examines how the ancient landscape was transformed - towns, roads and ports, fountains and waterways, tombs, palaces, villas and inscriptions. It then addresses reuse in churches, mosques and other structures, dealing also with collectors and museum-builders. Also considered are the dismantling and transport of the often massive blocks, and the superstitions surrounding antiquities which contributed to their continuing renown or to their destruction.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the impact of the monuments of Antiquity, in the architectural history of Byzantium and Islam and the sources and development of their material culture, as well as in the origins of museums.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhalgh, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Greenhalgh, Michael
Michael Greenhalgh: Donatello & his Sources (1982), Marble Past, Monumental Present (2009), and many papers on the fate of classical monuments.

Michael Greenhalgh, MA, PhD (Manchester 1968) is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Australian National University. His books include Donatello & his Sources (1982), Marble Past, Monumental Present (2009), and many papers on the fate of classical monuments.