A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion in the region since the twelfth century, discourages tombstones or decorative markers. However, elaborate Kyrgyz tombs combine earlier nomadic customs with Muslim architectural forms. After the territory was formally incorporated into the Russian Empire in 1876, enamel portraits for the deceased were attached to the Muslim monuments. Yet everything within the walls is overgrown with weeds, for it is not Kyrgyz tradition for the living to frequent the graves of the dead.
Architecturally unique, Kyrgyzstan’s dramatically sited cemeteries reveal the complex nature of the Kyrgyz people’s religious and cultural identities. Often said to have left behind few permanent monuments or books, the Kyrgyz people in fact left behind a magnificent legacy when they buried their dead.
Traveling in Kyrgyzstan, photographer Margaret Morton became captivated by the otherworldly grandeur of these cemeteries. Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan collects the photographs she made on several visits to the area and is an important contribution to the architectural and cultural record of this region.
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Автор: Fane-Saunders Название: Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture ISBN: 1107079861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107079861 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 101270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder, written in the first century CE, provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders. This book is the first to demonstrate the extent of Pliny`s contribution to Italian Renaissance architecture.
Название: Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500 ISBN: 1138248169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138248168 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 58170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences. The chosen period reflects the flowering of medieval and early modern pilgrimage. The perspective is that of the pilgrim journeying within - or embarking from - Southern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Italy. The book pursues the connections between pilgrimage and architecture through the investigation of such issues as theology, liturgy, patronage, miracles and healing, relics, and individual and communal memory. Moreover, it explores how pilgrimage may be regarded on various levels, from a physical journey towards a holy site to a more symbolic and internalized idea of pilgrimage of the soul.
Автор: Victor Plahte Tschudi Название: Baroque Antiquity ISBN: 110714986X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107149861 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 103490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. This pioneering study combines several histories to show how Roman antiquity was transformed to appeal to popes and princes alike in the Baroque period.
Автор: Byng, Gabriel (university Of Cambridge) Название: Church building and society in the later middle ages ISBN: 1107157099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107157095 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 101370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Almost every English town and village has a parish church, but how was its construction financed and managed? This original and authoritative study explains how economic change, local politics and architectural creation combined in late-medieval England to complete one of the most demanding tasks that any parish could undertake.
Название: Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe ISBN: 1138107778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138107779 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 54090.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Until recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was not the abstract theological debates that had the greatest impact upon their lives, but what they saw in their parish churches every Sunday. This collection of essays provides a coherent and interdisciplinary investigation of the impact that the Lutheran Reformation had on the appearance, architecture and arrangement of early modern churches. Drawing upon recent research being undertaken by leading art historians and historians on Lutheran places of worship, the volume emphasises often surprising levels of continuity, reflecting the survival of Catholic fixtures, fittings and altarpieces, and exploring how these could be remodelled in order to conform with the tenets of Lutheran belief. The volume not only addresses Lutheran art but also the way in which the architecture of their churches reflected the importance of preaching and the administration of the sacraments. Furthermore the collection is committed to extending these discussions beyond a purely German context, and to look at churches not only within the Holy Roman Empire, but also in Scandinavia, the Baltic States as well as towns dominated by Saxon communities in areas such as in Hungary and Transylvania. By focusing on ecclesiastical 'material culture' the collection helps to place the art and architecture of Lutheran places of worship into the historical, political and theological context of early modern Europe.
Автор: Andrew Spicer Название: Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe ISBN: 0754665836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754665830 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 158230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A collection of essays that provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the impact that the Lutheran Reformation had on the appearance, architecture and arrangement of early modern churches. I helps to place the art and architecture of Lutheran places of worship into the historical, political and theological context of early modern Europe.
Автор: Matrana Marc R., Kitchens Michael W. Название: Southern Splendor: Saving Architectural Treasures of the Old South ISBN: 1496811003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496811004 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Explores almost fifty houses built before the Civil War in the American South that have been authentically restored or preserved. Methodically examined are restoration efforts that preserve not only homes and other structures, but also the stories of those living in or occupying those homes. The authors discuss the challenges facing specific plantation homes and their preservation.
Автор: Susan M. Hunter, Sarah J .Boykin Название: Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn ISBN: 0820351814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351810 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 38810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967), a legacy that includes hundreds of houses in a variety of popular house styles, from bungalows to ranch houses, built using Wilburn`s plan books during the first six decades of the twentieth century.
Автор: Michael T. Southern Название: Civil War Witness: North Carolina Places Then and Now ISBN: 0865264899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780865264892 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 49890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In a creative, place-based approach to telling the story of the Civil War, architectural historian Michael Southern surveys the historic fabric of North Carolina and identifies those extant structures that were in place during the period 1861-1865 and whose stories contribute to our understanding of the war. Lavishly illustrated with newly-commissioned photographs and historic images, the book is a must-have for students of the war as well as readers with an interest in architectural history.
Автор: Virginia Cox Название: A Short History of the Italian Renaissance ISBN: 1784530778 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784530778 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 89760.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Contains new emphasis on women; rhetorical culture and the Italian regions beyond Florence/Venice/Rome.
Автор: Koppelkamm Stefan Название: The Imaginary Orient: Exotic Buildings of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe ISBN: 3936681775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783936681772 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 85660.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the 18th century the idea of the landscape garden, which had originated in England, spread all over Europe. The geometry of the Baroque park was abandoned in favour of a natural design. At the same time the garden became "The land of illusion": Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs, and Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature world in which distance mingled with the past. The keen interest in a fairy-tale China, which was manifested not only in the gardens but also in the chinoiseries of the Rococo, abated in the 19th century. The increasing expansion of the European colonial powers was reflected in new exotic fashions. While in England it was primarily the conquest of the Indian subcontinent that captured the imagination, for France the occupation of Algiers triggered an Orient-inspired fashion that spread from Paris to encompass the entire Continent, and found its expression in paintings, novels, operas, and buildings. This Orient, which could not be clearly defined geographically, was characterised by Islamic culture: It extended around the Mediterranean Sea from Constantinople to Granada. There, it was the Alhambra that fascinated writers and architects. The Islamic styles seemed especially appropriate for "buildings of a secular and cheerful character". In contrast to ancient Egyptian building forms, which, being severe and monumental, were preferably used for cemetery buildings, prisons or libraries, they promised earthly sensuous pleasures. The promise of happiness associated with an Orient staged by architectural means was intended to guarantee the commercial success of coffee houses and music halls, amusement parks, and steam baths. But even extravagant summer residences and middle-class villas were often built in faux-Oriental styles: In Brighton, the Prince Regent George (George IV after 1820) built himself an Indian palace; in Bad Cannstatt near Stuttgart, a Moorish refuge was erected for Wurttembergs King Wilhelm I; and the French town of Tourcoing was the site of the Palais du Congo, a bombastic villa in the Indian Moghul style that belonged to a wealthy perfume and soap manufacturer.
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