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Combining typography and architecture Schrift am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum prägt unser Umfeld. Den Kern des Buches bilden aktuelle Archigrafien, die exemplarisch für Strategien stehen, wie Architektur durch grafische Elemente angereichert werden kann. Die konstruktiven, materiellen oder visuellen Methoden werden so für eigene Entwürfe nutzbar. Eine Sammlung von Beschriftungstechniken und Hinweise zum Projektmanagement machen das Buch zu einem Werkzeug für Architekten und Grafiker.

Architectural inscriptions. --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- Architectural inscriptions --- Inscriptions architecturales --- Lettrage --- Architecture --- History. --- 72.049 --- 766:625.24 --- Archigrafie --- Architectuur ; opschriften ; inscripties ; belettering --- Architectuur ; verschillende onderwerpen --- Gebruiksgrafiek ; signalisatie --- Inscriptions architecturales. --- Lettrage.

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From the 4th century, following the imperial edicts of toleration and the ‘conversion’ of Emperor Constantine, Christianity could take on a more public form, building and decorating its places of worship and assembly in line with its own needs. The marvellous mosaic floors of churches from the late antique period on the Northern Adriatic are impressive monuments to early Christian archaeology and culture. The author examines these pavements with their inscriptions, known as offertory inscriptions. They give details of the names of the sponsors and their contributions to the relevant mosaic floor. The first part of the volume provides a historical overview, in which the author demonstrates how the distinctive yet enigmatic tradition of using floors as a medium for text and illustration can be traced back to ancient pagan times. In the region studied, of Histria and Venetia, the custom of inlaid mosaic floor decoration was already widespread before it came to be used in church buildings around the Mediterranean. The second part of the study examines the historical architectural and religious characteristics of the Adriatic offertory inscriptions, which reveal information both about contemporary church organisation and about liturgical customs and views of salvation. Im Zuge der kaiserlichen Toleranzedikte und der "Bekehrung" Kaiser Konstantins konnte das Christentum seit dem 4. Jahrhundert stärker in die Öffentlichkeit treten und seine Kultbauten und Versammlungsorte nach seinen Bedürfnissen gestalten und ausschmücken. Die prächtigen Mosaikfußböden der spätantiken Kirchen an der oberen Adria sind großartige Zeugnisse der frühchristlichen Archäologie und Kultur. Der Verfasser untersucht diese Pavimente mit ihren Inschriften, den sogenannten Offerenteninschriften: Sie geben Auskunft über die Namen der Stifter und deren Beitrag zum jeweiligen Bodenmosaik. Im ersten Teil des Bandes bietet der Autor einen historischen Überblick. Es zeigt sich, dass die Wurzeln des auffälligen wie rätselhaften Brauches, Fußböden als Bild- und Schriftmedium zu nutzen, bis ins heidnische Altertum zurückreichen. Im Untersuchungsgebiet Histria et Venetia war der musivische (eingelegte) Bodenschmuck schon sehr stark verbreitet, bevor er in die kirchlichen Gebäude rund um das Mittelmeer seinen Einzug hielt. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit behandelt die kunst- und auch religionsgeschichtlichen Besonderheiten der adriatischen Offerenteninschriften: Sie erlauben Rückschlüsse sowohl auf die spätantike Kirchenorganisation wie auch auf die liturgischen Bräuche und Heilsvorstellungen der Gläubigen.

Religious architecture --- Germanic literature --- Venice --- Istria --- Mosaics [Early christian ] --- Italy --- Veneto (Italy) --- Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) --- Architectural inscriptions --- Mosaic floors --- Mosaics, Early Christian --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- Early Christian mosaics --- Floor mosaics --- Floors, Mosaic --- Floors --- Mosaics --- Pavements, Mosaic

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La redécouverte et l'étude, au seuil de l'âge moderne, des monuments antiques avec leurs épigraphes en belles capitales romaines, n'ont pas seulement satisfait le plaisir de la chasse et de la collection et nourri en profondeur la connaissance de tous les secteurs du monde ancien, mais elles ont déclenché une véritable vogue en même temps qu'un spectaculaire renouvellement de la forme inscriptionnelle, tant chez les particuliers qu'entre les mains des Etats souverains, à Rome d'abord, puis dans les cours princières d'Europe, tant sur les monuments que sur les supports plus légers des fêtes éphémères (entrées royales et funérailles princières), avant d'envahir le livre lui-même, dépositaire d'un nouveau genre littéraire, l'elogium, intermédiaire entre prose et poésie : non répétition mais interprétation originale du modèle antique, accompagnée et surveillée par les recherches sur la forme et la mise en page de la lettre et productrice de deux grands débats : le premier, sur le style de l'inscription, qui oppose de part et d'autre des Alpes une esthétique de la magnificence à une esthétique de la gravité, le second, le plus riche de conséquences, symbolisé par la substitution du français au latin sous les tableaux historiques de Charles Le Brun dans la Grande Galerie de Versailles. Ce dernier épisode, en fermant une époque et en ouvrant une nouvelle ère de l'inscription, justifie l'arc chronologique défini par les auteurs, en même temps qu'il illustre de façon éclatante les interfaces multiples d'un objet situé au croisement de disciplines multiples, histoire, politique, rhétorique, histoire de l'écriture, histoire de l'art.

Inscriptions --- Classicism in architecture --- Architecture --- Classicisme dans l'architecture --- History --- Histoire --- 930.27 --- Epigrafie. Paleografie --- 930.27 Epigrafie. Paleografie --- Architectural inscriptions --- Epitaphs --- Monuments --- Epigraphs (Inscriptions) --- Epigraphy --- Inscription --- Paleography --- Epigraphists --- Biography --- Tombs --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Lettering --- Historical monuments --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Épigraphie --- Savoir et érudition --- Europe --- 1500-1800

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The purpose of this book is to present the Hekatompedon Inscription at Athens ( IG I³ 4) as a major monument of Greek art, legitimately on a par with more famous landmarks of the Greek aesthetic tradition like the Parthenon Frieze. Inscribed most probably in the middle of the decade that saw the Greek response to the Persian invasion, the Hekatompedon Inscription has long been recognized for its historical and religious importance. This study looks at the inscription on its own terms: the unique fusion of its visual and textual content in that most Greek of epigraphical layouts, the stoikhedon style. Such an approach leads to the question of origins: where and why was the stoikhedon style formulated and where does the Hekatompedon Inscription stand in that development? Egypt’s influential system of proportions and use of grids will be considered determinative for the very first time.

Ancient history --- Archeology --- Classical Greek literature --- Greece --- Architectural inscriptions --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Stoichedon inscriptions --- Greek language --- Inscriptions architecturales --- Décoration et ornement architecturaux --- Inscriptions stoikedon --- Grec (Langue) --- Alphabet. --- Alphabet --- Stoichedon inscriptions. --- Hekatompedon inscription. --- 729 --- Arts Architecture Design and decoration --- Architectural inscriptions --Greece --Athens. --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --Greece --Athens. --- Greek language --Alphabet. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Décoration et ornement architecturaux --- Inscriptions, Stoichedon --- Architectural decoration and ornament --- Stonework, Decorative --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Decoration and ornament --- Hecatompedon inscription --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Writing --- Architectural design --- Exterior walls --- Inscriptions --- Lettering

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Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300-800 CE), compares them to similar texts from pagan, Jewish, and Muslim spaces of worship, and explores how they functioned both textually and visually. These texts not only recorded the names and prayers of the faithful, but were powerful verbal and visual statements of cultural values and religious beliefs, conveying meaning through their words as well as through their appearances. In fact, the two were intimately connected. All of these texts - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and pagan - acted visually, embracing their own materiality as mosaic, paint, or carved stone. Colourful and artfully arranged, the inscriptions framed human relationships with the divine, encouraged responses from readers, and made prayers material. In the first in-depth examination of the inscriptions as words and as images, the author reimagines the range of aesthetic, cultural, and religious experiences that were possible in spaces of worship. Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity is essential reading for those interested in Roman, late antique, and Byzantine material and visual culture, inscriptions and other texts, and religious life in the ancient Mediterranean.

Architectural inscriptions --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Writing and art --- Mosaics, Ancient --- Church decoration and ornament --- Jewish decoration and ornament --- Islamic decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament, Islamic --- Muslim decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament --- Decoration and ornament, Jewish --- Church ornament --- Ecclesiastical decoration and ornament --- Interior decoration --- Religious articles --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art and writing --- Art --- Architectural decoration and ornament --- Architecture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Architectural design --- Exterior walls --- Architectural lettering --- Building inscriptions --- House inscriptions --- Inscriptions, Architectural --- Inscriptions --- Lettering --- History --- E-books --- Mosaics, Ancient - Mediterranean Region --- Writing and art - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 --- Architectural inscriptions - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500