Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine
The architecture of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire which developed from Early Christian and late Roman antecedents in the 4th century.
Byzantine - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; ...
Byzantine Architecture
Architecture characterized by brick arid masonry construction, round arches and domes, developed within the Byzantine Empire.
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The Byzantines thought of themselves as the heirs of the Roman Empire, Greek remained the lingua franca of their domain, for example, as it had in this area under Roman rule, and we may approach their architecture from this position.
Byzantine art. Figurative art which came into being around the 4th century A.D. in the eastern ...
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A style dating from the fifth century, characterized by masonry construction around a central plan, with domes on penditives, typically depicting the figure of Christ; foliage patterns on stone capitals; ...
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Early prototypes of Byzantine architecture are San Vitale (526-547) in Ravenna and in St Sergius and St Bacchus (527) in Constantinople, both domed churches on an octagonal plan with surrounding aisles.
Byzantine Architecture began in the fifth century in Byzantium as a response to the Orthodox church. A major church design was the Vaulted Centralized Church. Another form of Byzantine church was the very uncommon, but present long basilica.
Byzantine architecture - the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the 5th century; massive domes with square bases and round arches and spires and much use of mosaics ...
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Craftsmen in England, France, and the Netherlands also used spiral-shaped columns and posts to ornament furniture, clocks, and alters.
Byzantine capitals are of endless variety; the Roman composite capital would seem to have been the favourite type they followed at first: subsequently, the block of stone was left rough as it came from the quarry, and the sculptor, set to carve it, ...
Lavra: Byzantine monastic retreat, sometimes fortified.
Licence to crenellate: A warrant of royal permission to build a castle or to fortify an existing structure such as a manor house.
quincunx: (Byzantine) cross-in-square plan consisting of a large central square (usually domed) surrounded by 4 barrel-vaulted rectangular bays plus a further 4 square corner bays (which may also be domed) — making a total of 9 areas.
It tended to look back to English prototypes of the late 17th and early 18th centuries rather than to the more expansive models of the Continent, where Baroque architecture originated.Neo-Byzantine ...
Narthex - In a Byzantine church, the transverse vestibule either preceding nave and aisle as an inner narthex (esonarthex) or preceding the façade as an outer narthex (exonarthex).
Byzantine Relating to the Eastern Roman Empire, with its capital in Constantinople, especially after the fall of Rome. campanile Bell tower, usually separated from the main building.
This is called the Byzantine style. The church of St Sophia at Istanbul, built by Justinian (reigned
527-565), offers the most typical specimen of the style, of which the fundamental principle was an application of the Roman arch, ...
In ancient Byzantine churches and for several centuries thereafter the clergy and the people (representing respectively Heaven and Earth) were separated by a low wall about four feet high called a chancel screen.
In Torcello, Murano, and Venice these were naturally Byzantine, more or less modified by the variations at Ravenna.
Spanish Colonial is the most decorative of the Spanish styles, and its ornament covers a wide range of source materials from Moorish to Renaissance and Byzantine.
In the Old Testament Melchizedek was the only priest-king; and when the Byzantines wanted to justify the formula for the priest-kingship, they cited him.
Dosseret, or impost block - the cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area greatly in excess of the column which carried them.
The window on the tower of the City Hall has many Byzantine and Romanesque elements. The Roman or round-headed arch is composed of huge, oversized voussoirs. The arch itself is compound as in many doorways of the period.
A style of European architecture containing both Roman and Byzantine elements, prevalent especially in the 11th and 12th centuries and characterized by thick walls, barrel vaults, and relatively unrefined ornamentation.
Most common in the Southwest and Florida, Spanish-style architecture takes its cues from the missions of the early Spanish missionaries--such as the one at San Juan Capistrano in California--and includes details from the Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, ...
Cubical block of stone above the capitals in a Byzantine church, used to carry the arches and vault, the springing of which had a superficial area gr...
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a tripartite icon in the Byzantine tradition, usually showing Christ enthroned between the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist.
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Small squares of colored stone or glass set in cement and arranged in a picture or pattern. A popular form of mural decoration in Early Christian and Byzantine art.
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Naturalism: Style of art treating drapery, bodily movements, and facial expressions as they might appear in nature or real life. Sculptures carved in the Gothic era showed considerably more naturalism than in the Romanesque or Byzantine eras ...
Byelaw, by-law - Laws governing all phases of construction in a particular location
Bypass - An arrangement of pipes (for conduits) for directing flow round instead of through the normal pipe
Byzantine - Relating to byzantium or ...
tower - a building or structure, usually round or square in plan and characteristically taller than its diameter. (p. 26 - the clock tower, p. 32 - two bell towers, p. 36 - one bell tower, p. 42 - Byzantine rococo tower, p. 50).
also be a similar feature above doors and pictures PENDENTIVE: a concave spandrel leading from the angle of two walls to the base of a circular dome; the structural means of support for a circular dome to rest on a square dome, a common Byzantine ...
USA - Monday, February 16, 1998 at 12:33:31 (EST) The site is very good but I suggest some informations and photos about Byzantine architecture.
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Belgrade, Serbia - Monday, February 16, 1998 at 05:05:00 (EST) This site is unbelievable.
Wall mosaics were most prevelent in the Early Christian and Byzantine periods, during which they were a very important form of wall decoration.
 See also: Architecture, Roman, Church, House, Arches
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