A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
History
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
+MONUMENTS.+ CONSTANTINOPLE: St. Sergius, 520; Hagia Sophia,
532-538; Holy Apostles by Justinian (demolished); Holy Peace (St.
Irene) originally by Constantine, rebuilt by Justinian, and again
in 8th century by Leo the Isaurian; Hagia Theotokos, 12th century
(?); Monétes Choras (“Kahiré Djami”), 10th century; Pantokrator;
“Fetiyeh Djami.” Cisterns, especially the “Bin Bir Direk” (1,001
columns) and “Yere Batan Serai;” palaces, few vestiges except the
great hall of the Blachernæ palace. SALONICA: Churches--of Divine
Wisdom (“Aya Sofia”) St. Bardias, St. Elias. RAVENNA: San Vitale,
527-540. VENICE: St. Mark’s, 977-1071; “Fondaco dei Turchi,” now
Civic Museum, 12th century. Other churches at Athens and Mt.
Athos; at Misitra, Myra, Ancyra, Ephesus, etc.; in Armenia at Ani,
Dighour, Etchmiadzin, Kouthais, Pitzounda, Usunlar, etc.; tombs at
Ani, Varzhahan, etc.; in Russia at Kieff (St. Basil, Cathedral),
Kostroma, Moscow (Assumption, St. Basil, Vasili Blaghennoi, etc.),
Novgorod, Tchernigoff; at Kurtea Darghish in Wallachia, and many
other places.
CHAPTER XII.
SASSANIAN AND MOHAMMEDAN ARCHITECTURE.
(ARABIAN, MORESQUE, PERSIAN, INDIAN, AND TURKISH.)
BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Bourgoin, _Les Arts Arabes_. Coste, _Monuments
du Caire_; _Monuments modernes de la Perse_. Cunningham,
_Archæological Survey of India_. Fergusson, _Indian and Eastern
Architecture_. De Forest, _Indian Architecture and Ornament_.
Flandin et Coste, _Voyage en Perse_. Franz-Pasha, _Die Baukunst
des Islam_. Gayet, _L’Art Arabe_; _L’Art Persan_. Girault de
Prangey, _Essai sur l’architecture des Arabes en Espagne_, etc.
Goury and Jones, _The Alhambra_. Jacob, _Jeypore Portfolio of
Architectural Details_. Le Bon, _La civilisation des Arabes_; _Les
monuments de l’Inde_. Owen Jones, _Grammar of Ornament_.
Parvillée, _L’Architecture Ottomane_. Prisse d’Avennes, _L’Art
Arabe_. Texier, _Description de l’Arménie, la Perse_, etc.
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