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Was ist Barock? : Architektur und Städtebau Europas 1580-1770.
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ISBN: 3534142896 9783534142897 Year: 2003 Publisher: Darmstadt Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

The Este monuments and urban development in renaissance Ferrara.
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ISBN: 0521561396 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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The urban image of late antique constantinople
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ISBN: 9780521030847 0521030846 9780521827232 052182723X Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople boasted a collection of antiquities unrivalled by any city of the medieval world. The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople reconstructs the collection from the time that the city was founded by Constantine the Great through the sixth-century reign of the emperor Justinian. Drawing on medieval literary sources and, to a lesser extent, graphic and archaeological material, it identifies and describes the antiquities that were known to have stood in the city's public spaces. Individual displays of statues are analysed as well as examined in conjunction with one another against the city's topographical setting, in an effort to understand how ancient sculpture was used to create a distinct historical identity for Constantinople.

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