Byzantine Architecture in the west Black Sea area |
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Byzantine Painting from the west coast of the Black Sea |
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The elements preserved today do not allow a clear view of the stylistic trends of painting from the west coast of Black Sea during this period. However, we may assume that the Byzantine influence, notably the Constantinopolitan trends, was ample until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The influence of some other, more archaistic stylistic trends, can also be traced. As for the 16th-17th centuries, the influence of the Cretan School is visible. |
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Byzantine pottery in the Black Sea region |
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Byzantine pottery was commonly in use in the coastal towns of the Black Sea, where the culture and the lifestyle remained Byzantine through the Middle Ages. The import was supplied directly from the best market of the Empire – that of Constantinople. Therefore, products of different origin have been unerthed. Eleven classes of Byzantine pottery, dating to the 8th c. onwards, are considered to have been distributed quite intensively within the Black Sea region. These are mainly glazed table... |
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Cherson (Moyen Âge), Monuments |
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Cherson était une ville la plus importante dans la Crimée, elle exista des VIe s. av. J.Chr. jusqu’au XVe s. Des archéologues ont étudié plus que 30% de son territoire. On a découvert plus que 60 églises et chapelles. Le décor en marbre et en mosaïques, les objets nombreux de la vie quotidienne et d’art mineurs témoignent des influences constantinopolitaines et des liens étroits de Cherson avec des centres divers de la Méditerranée. |
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Influences culturelles byzantines chez les peuples du Nord |
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Dès la fondation de Constantinople Byzance exerce une influence importante chez les peuples du Nord (mer Noire, Crimée, Caucase, Russie). Ces influences culturelles se reflètent surtout à la civilisation materielle (objets de luxe, armes, églises). L'emprise de l'Empire d'Orient se renforce sous Justinien, tandis qu' à partir de VIIe s. l'influence de Byzance s'affaiblit du point de vue politique, mais non culturel, vu qu'on atteste la continuité de la byzantininisation de ces régions tracée... |
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La cote orientale de la mer Noire (Moyen Âge). Les Monuments |
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Le littoral oriental du Pont-Euxin était situé aux confins du monde gréco-romain. Les villes les plus importantes se trouvaient dans la zone littorale. A l’époque protobyzantine, étaient bâtie les églises de type divers. A l’èpoque medio-byzantine une série d’églises à coupole de type en «croix inscrite» trahit l’influence byzantine. Un monument important est le palais à Lykhny, résidence des souverains abkhaze. Aux XIe-XIVe s. on bâtit surtout des églises à nef unique. |
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Medieval monasteries on the West Black Sea coast |
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Both monumental and rock-cut monasteries were founded and functioned along the West Black Sea coast and in its immediate hinterland between the 6th and 17th c. Due to the proximity to Constantinople and the importance of the coast as a contact zone, many of them were under royal, imperial and patriarchal patronage and thus, had the duty and the privilege to act as primary literary and spiritual centers in the Black Sea region. |
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Mesembria (Middle Ages), Μonuments |
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The surviving churches in Mesembria with their exuberant exterior decoration became a kind of emblem of the coastal town though the well-preserved sectors of the fortress wall and some other monuments deserve attention too. Yet the peculiar fusion of metropolitan and provincial influence on one hand, and local building and decorative approaches on the other, defines the most distinctive characteristic of the architectural appearance of Mesembria. |
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