The Holy Apostles : a lost monument, a forgotten project, and the presentness of the past / edited by Margaret Mullett and Robert G. Ousterhout ; with appendixes prepared by Fani Gargova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dumbarton Oaks, host institution.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Mullett, Margaret, editor.

Ousterhout, Robert G., editor.

Gargova, Fani, 1985- contributor.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dumbarton Oaks.

Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey).

Church buildings--Turkey--Istanbul--Congresses.

Church buildings.

Church architecture--Turkey--Istanbul--Congresses.

Church architecture.

Architectural rendering--Turkey--Istanbul--Case studies--Congresses.

Architectural rendering.

Architecture, Byzantine--Turkey--Istanbul--Congresses.

Architecture, Byzantine.

Buildings.

Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey)--Congresses.

Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey)--History--Sources--Congresses.

Dumbarton Oaks--Congresses.

Buildings--Turkey--Istanbul--Congresses.

History.

Turkey--Istanbul.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Sources.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2020]

Summary:

"Founded by Constantine the Great, rebuilt by Justinian, and redecorated in the ninth, tenth and twelfth centuries, the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was the mausoleum of emperors, patriarchs, and saints. It was also a key station in the ceremonies of the city, the site of an important school, a major inspiration for apostolic literature, and briefly the home of the patriarch. Despite its importance, the church no longer exists, replaced by the mosque of Mehmet II after the fall of the city to the Ottomans. Today it is remembered primarily from two important middle Byzantine ekphraseis, which celebrate its beauty and importance, as well as from architectural copies and manuscript illustrations. Scholars have long puzzled over its appearance, as well as its importance to the Byzantines. Anxious to reconstruct the building and its place in the empire, an early collaborative project of Dumbarton Oaks brought together a philologist, an art historian and an architectural historian in the 1940s and 1950s to reconstruct their own version of the Holy Apostles. Never fully realized, their efforts remained unpublished. The essays in this volume reconsider their project from a variety of vantage points, while illuminating differences of approach seventy years later, to arrive at a twenty-first century synthesis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Symposium, Project, Monument / Margaret Mullett

DUMBARTON OAKS

2. The 1948 Holy Apostles Symposium and Collaborative Research at Dumbarton Oaks / James N. Carder

3. The Holy Apostles in Constantinople and Washington, DC The Projects of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., and Paul Underwood / Robert S. Nelson

MEMORY

4. Apostolic Patterns of Thought, From Early Christianity to Early Byzantium / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

5. Apostolic Succession and Byzantine Theology / George E. Demacopoulos

FOUNDATIONS

6. Constantine's Apostoleion A Reappraisal / Mark J. Johnson

7. Justinian's Church of the Holy Apostles A New Reconstruction Proposal / Nikolaos Karydis

8. Around and about the Holy Apostles in Constantinople / Paul Magdalino

EKPHRASEIS

9. Constantine the Rhodian's Ekphrasis in Its Contemporary Milieu / Floris Bernard

10. Creating the Mosaics of the Holy Apostles / Liz James

11. The Logos of Nicholas Mesarites / Ruth Macrides

12. Inside and Outside the Holy Apostles with Nicholas Mesarites / Henry Maguire

LEGACIES

13. The Church of the Holy Apostles and Its Place in Later Byzantine Architecture / Robert G. Ousterhout

14. Gennadios Scholarios and the Patriarchate A Reluctant Patriarch on the "Unhappy Throne" / Nevra Necipoglu

15. From the Founder of Constantinople to the Founder of Istanbul Mehmed the Conqueror, Fatih Camii, and the Church of the Holy Apostles / Julian Raby.

Notes:

Papers from the Byzantine Studies symposium held April 24-26, 2015 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.; Symposiarchs: Margaret Mullett and Robert Ousterhout.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9780884024644

0884024644

OCLC:

1143824854

Publisher Number:

99989196289