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ABC/35
Title
Choix d’eglises Byzantines en Greece
Date(s)
- 1842 (Creation)
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1 volume
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A selection of Byzantine Churches in Greece, by the architect A. Couchaud. The volume begins by offering an introduction to the history and the three main periods that characterise this type of architecture and short descriptions of the illustrations that follow. Buildings included are: Old Metropolitan Church, Athens; Church of St. Philip, Athens; Church of the Great Virgin, Athens; Church of the Virgin of the Great Monastery, Athens; Church of Saint John, Athens; Church of the Intangibles, Athens; Church of St. Theodore, Athens; Church of Saint Nicodemus, Athens; Church of Kapnicarea, Athens; Church of Saint Taxiarque, Athens; Daphni Monastery, Attica; Kalcis, Euboea; Church of the Virgin, Mistras, Peloponnese; Battlements, Mistras, Peloponnese; Church of Saint Nicolas, Mistras, Peloponnese; Chapel at Androussa, Peloponnese; Church in Samari, Peloponnese; Apsides in Mistras, Peloponnese; Sculptures; Manuscripts; Painted Ornaments. Most of them are represented by drawings, plans, elevations and sections, some to scale.
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- French
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Corners and spine scuffed