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The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
Sarah Bassett
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Description for The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
Paperback. This book reconstructs Constantinople's collection of antiquities from its foundation to its fall. Num Pages: 316 pages, 43 b/w illus. 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; ACG; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 unrivalled 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 ... Read more
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 unrivalled 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521030847
SKU
V9780521030847
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About Sarah Bassett
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.
Reviews for The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople
'Sarah Bassett's study of the reuse of ancient sculpture in early Constantinople offers a unique approach to the creation of a civic identity in the Late Antique period, and an important reassessment of the foundation of the Byzantine capital.' Cornucopia 'This is an informative and highly readable work whose title conceals its relevance to a far broader readership than specialists ... Read more