Development of Regional Styles I

2019 ◽  
pp. 405-429
Author(s):  
Robert G. Ousterhout
Keyword(s):  
The South ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
Church Design

Certain features in Byzantine church design are universal, such as the centralized, domed plan and the three-part sanctuary. While plans may have been imported from major centers, construction was local: under normal circumstances, masons did not travel. Thus, regional workshops developed distinctive techniques and styles. The architecture of the so-called Helladic School of the south (primarily Athens and the Peloponnese) contrasts with northern developments in the area of Thessalonike and Macedonia. At the same time, traveling masons from Constantinople seem to have been at work at several sites, such as Ferai, Veljusa, and Nea Mone.

The Framing of Sacred Space

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Bogdanovic
Keyword(s):  
Design Principle ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Spatial Presence ◽  
Dynamic Design ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
Church Design ◽  
New Covenants ◽  
Significant Factors

The Framing of Sacred Space offers the first topical study of canopies as essential spatial and symbolic units in Byzantine-rite churches. Centrally planned columnar structures—typically comprising four columns and a roof—canopies had a critical role in the modular and additive processes of church design, from actual church furnishings in the shape of a canopy, to the church’s structural core defined by four columns and a dome. As architectonic objects of basic structural and design integrity, canopies integrate an archetypical image of architecture and provide means for an innovative understanding of the materialization of the idea of the Byzantine church and its multifocal spatial presence. The book considers both the material and conceptual framing of sacred space and explains how the canopy bridges the physical and transcendental realms. As a crucial element of church design in the Byzantine world, a world that gradually abandoned the basilica as a typical building of Roman imperial secular architecture, the canopy carried tectonic and theological meanings and, through vaulted, canopied bays and recognizable Byzantine domed churches, established organic architectural, symbolic, and sacred ties between the Old and New Covenants. In such an overarching context, the canopy becomes an architectural parti, a vital concept and dynamic design principle that carries the essence of the Byzantine church. The Framing of Sacred Space highlights significant factors in understanding canopies through specific architectural settings and the Byzantine concepts of space, thus also contributing to larger debates about the creation of sacred space and related architectural “taxonomy.”

The Church of St. Catherine in Thessalonike: its topographical setting and the current state of scholarship

2015 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Hadjitryphonos
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Information ◽  
Church Building ◽  
Byzantine Architecture ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
Church Design ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Church

AbstractThe Church of St. Catherine representing one of the outstanding achievements of Byzantine architecture in Thessaloniki, and vital to our understanding of late Byzantine church building, has not been sufficiently studied. The intention of this study is to present a number of issues - taking into consideration that the information about this church is dispersed in many studies about different topics of Byzantine culture and archaeology - and to focus on its topographical setting, its immediate environs, the available sources, and the current state of scholarship, as well to present new information such as the document of dedication on occasion of its conversion into a mosque. - The main conclusions to be drawn are the following: Limited information about the church and its area; its identification mostly with churches dedicated to Christ; its dedication to St. Catherine mentioned for the first time in the Ottoman period; conflicting proposals to dating the monument between the twelfth and the second half of the fourteenth century; consideration of two opinions, first holding the church design and its implementation according to a unified plan, and a second based on different phases requiring further examination.

scholarly journals Tradition in the Architecture of Wooden Churches in the South Urals

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 586-592
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
South Urals ◽  
The South ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Church Design ◽  
First Time

The subject of this paper seems to be important due to the ever-increasing interest in architectural traditions of Russia’s regions. The purpose of the article is to identify the characteristic features of the architecture of modern wooden temples in the territory of the South Urals. The key approach I chose for this study was historical architectural analysis and integration of data from archives and field surveys. A novel systematic analysis of the evolution of church design in the region since ancient times till nowadays is offered. For the first time, a study is made of churches building based on ‘model church design projects for Orenburg the Orenburg defence lines’ and exemplary albums. Descriptions and analyses of the region’s lesser known little known specimen of religious architecture are introduced for the scientific use based on the author’s own in situ investigations. Many archival materials from Russia's central and regional repositories are considered and published at for the first time. Key properties of modern region Eastern Orthodox churches built in different architecture styles are formulated and classified.

Presidential Republicanism in the South, 1960

1962 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Cosman
Keyword(s):  
The South

Long-term Cyclic Variations of Prominences, Green and Red Coronae over Solar Cycles

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Vojtech Rušin ◽  
Milan Minarovjech ◽  
Milan Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Emission Lines ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
The South ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Local Maxima ◽  
The North ◽  
Cyclic Variations

AbstractLong-term cyclic variations in the distribution of prominences and intensities of green (530.3 nm) and red (637.4 nm) coronal emission lines over solar cycles 18–23 are presented. Polar prominence branches will reach the poles at different epochs in cycle 23: the north branch at the beginning in 2002 and the south branch a year later (2003), respectively. The local maxima of intensities in the green line show both poleward- and equatorward-migrating branches. The poleward branches will reach the poles around cycle maxima like prominences, while the equatorward branches show a duration of 18 years and will end in cycle minima (2007). The red corona shows mostly equatorward branches. The possibility that these branches begin to develop at high latitudes in the preceding cycles cannot be excluded.

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