Afterlife of Byzantine Architecture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Ignjatović, Aleksandar

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Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century, there was a sharp discrepancy between the plenitude, diversity and importance of re-imagined and re-used Byzantine architecture and its persistently peripheral status in historiography. This paradox is especially apparent in the context of Byzantine architecture perceived as both a model for, and a precursor of, architectural modernism. A link between Byzantine and modern architecture, based on the ideas of structural rationalism, tectonics, truthfulness and anti-naturalism, as represented in Neo-Byzantine art and architecture and elaborated by various historians - from John Ruskin and Henri Labrouste to Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, Roger Fry and Clement Greenberg - is only part of an unexplored kaleidoscopic picture of Byzantium's place in the Western modernist imagination.

Keywords:

Modern architecture / Neo Byzantine architecture / Byzantine architecture / Architectural modernism / Architectural historiography

Source:
Investigating and writing architectural history : subjects, methodologies and frontiers : papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, Torino, 2014, 2014, 1007-1008

Publisher:

Turin: Politecnico di Torino

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The 20th century Serbian art: the national and Europe (RS-177013)

ISBN: 978-88-8202-048-4

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http://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/948

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Ignjatović, A.. (2014). Afterlife of Byzantine Architecture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. in Investigating and writing architectural history : subjects, methodologies and frontiers : papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, Torino, 2014
Turin: Politecnico di Torino., 1007-1008.

Ignjatović A. Afterlife of Byzantine Architecture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. in Investigating and writing architectural history : subjects, methodologies and frontiers : papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, Torino, 2014. 2014;:1007-1008..

Ignjatović, Aleksandar, "Afterlife of Byzantine Architecture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century" in Investigating and writing architectural history : subjects, methodologies and frontiers : papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, Torino, 2014 (2014):1007-1008.