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The Skylla group in Constantinople’s hippodrome [PDF]
The Skylla group was among the most famous bronze sculptures installed in the hippodrome at Constantinople. This paper suggests that the Skylla was a feature of Constantinople at its re-foundation, but perhaps originally stood facing the Bosphorus. In around AD 400 it was moved to the hippodrome where it stood until its destruction in 1204,
Stephenson, Paul
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The cult of Saint Zotikos Orphanotrophos and his images in Byzantium and beyond [PDF]
St. Zotikos Orphanotrophos acquired great renown in Constantinople owing to his efforts in the establishment of two singularly important philanthropic institutions in the Byzantine Empire - Orphanotropheion (Ὀρφανοτροφεῖον) on the Acropolis of ...
Tomić Marka
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The church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople as a model for Serbian architects in recent times [PDF]
Under the influence of Russian and Austrian neo-Byzantinism, as well as increasingly extensive historiographic research, evocations of Byzantine architectural achievements appeared in Serbian architecture in the early 1870s.
Kadijević Aleksandar Đ.
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Byzantine Pink: Alexis Gritchenko’s Narrative of Constantinople
Ukrainian artist Alexis Gritchenko (Oleksa Hryshchenko), who lived in Istanbul between November 1919 and April 1921 during the occupation of the Allied forces, opened the Constantinople Bleu et Rose exhibition in Paris in 1923, where he displayed his ...
Emir Alışık
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Constantinople in imperial ideology of Stefan Dušan [PDF]
The centuries-old expansion of the Serbian state at the expense of Byzantium received its epilogue with the rule of Stefan Dušan. The Serbian king managed to use the opportunity provided by the Roman civil war of 1341-1347, manoeuvring between two ...
Pejušković Vojislav D.
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The Historical Evolution of Early Byzantine Liturgy in 6–7 AD [PDF]
At the end of the 6 – early 7 centuries the ideological and symbolic interpretations of liturgy and church buildings finalized. The importance of the liturgy, actions of the clergy acquire some deep symbolic meaning.
N.N. Bolgov, A.D. Strzhalkovskaia
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The Great Palace mosaics. A contribution to the interpretation of their iconography [PDF]
The mosaics of the Great Palace in Constantinople represent an exceptional work of art from the Late Antique period, unsurpassed in their style and composition features as well as the richness of the prevailing motifs.
Plemić Bojana
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Повесть о юноше и чародее в славянской книжности
A Narrative about a Young Man and the Magician Mesites in the Slavonic Medieval Tradition. This article is devoted to the study of the Narrative about the Young Man and Magician that widely circulated in the Medieval Slavonic tradition.
Irina M. Gritsevskaya+1 more
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The Constantinople as Palimpsest Project is a collaborative, online, interactive, topographically-indexed teaching encyclopedia of the city of Constantinople from AD 330 to 1453. It was created through and is hosted on the web 2.0 tools of ArcGIS online (https://www.arcgis.com). It is curated by Jesse W.
Torgerson, Jesse+5 more
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Themistius and His Works in the Context of Cultural Continuity [PDF]
This article is devoted to the general heritage of Themistius, the orator, philosopher, and rhetorician who worked in Constantinople in the second half of the fourth century. All previous works have considered only his philosophical ideas.
N. N. Bolgov
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