Byzantium's Other Empire - Trebizond

Trebizond, that “long-anticipated city of the Komnenians with its soft and melodious name” to quote Jakob Fallmerayer, has long lured scholars, attracted by its unique combination of Byzantine familiarity and Anatolian foreignness. From 1204 to 1461 the city was at the heart of an empire that proudly proclaimed its inheritance of Byzantine power, but simultaneously stood apart from it; a “Greek Emirate” surrounded by Turkish and Caucasian states.
Focusing on the church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, with its unusual architecture, unique sculptural decoration and extraordinary wall paintings, Byzantium’s Other Empire: Trebizond reveals the ways in which these tensions were expressed in public in the monuments of the empire. It draws extensively on the photograph and draw

Dil: İngilizce
ISBN: 9786059388009
Sayfa Sayısı: 263
Boyutları: 17,0 x 24,0 cm
Basım Tarihi: 2016 - Mart
Konu: Türkçe Kitap - Tarih - Tarih Araştırmaları