Freze, Anna A. Ambulatories and Chapels in the Churches of Macedonia in the 8th–14th Centuries

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Title Ambulatories and Chapels in the Churches of Macedonia in the 8th–14th Centuries
Author email anna.freze@gmail.com
About author Freze, Anna A. — researcher. The Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Town Planning, pr. Vernadskogo, 29, 119331 Moscow, Russian Federation; SPIN-code: 3134-4333; ORCID 0000-0003-4591-6349
In the section Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art DOI10.18688/aa2313-2-20
Year 2023 Volume 13 Pages 253–269
Type of article RAR Index UDK 72.033 Index BBK 85.113 (4)
Abstract

Ambulatories and Chapels in the Churches of Macedonia in the 8th–14th сenturies display the variety and contextuality of the chosen design elements. As a whole, the phenomenon stays within the framework of the common Byzantine trends in handling of the periphery bays, using a wide range of options in introducing chapels and ambulatories in the architecture of a church complex. A special group consists of the late Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki, where the annexes are arranged to envelope the core and end with a pair of eastern chapels. This article suggests to look for the origins of such layout in the middle Byzantine architecture of Constantinople. The extant Macedonian monuments show a special freedom of their master-builders in creating new designs, also by including chapels and ambulatories, leading to the development of new layouts, trespassing the definitions of the settled “canonical” Byzantine architectural types.

This research was funded by the Russian Scientific Fund, project No. 20-18-00294-П “Artistic Traditions and Ecclesiastic-Political Ideology in the Medieval Architecture and Art of the Balkans. Macedonian question”.
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Reference Freze, Anna A. Ambulatories and Chapels in the Churches of Macedonia in the 8th–14th Centuries. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 13. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — Lomonosov Moscow State University / St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2023, pp. 253–269. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2313-2-20
Publication Article language russian
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