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Seeing the Unseen: Plaster Reliefs in Middle Byzantine Constantinople

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Abstract

This paper discusses the scarce, but crucial evidence for plaster reliefs in Constantinople between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries. While many plaster reliefs survived in the Balkan peninsula, there is room to confirm that they were also used in the capital. Plaster reliefs were a quick substitution for marble, but could also answer aesthetic needs and architectural conventions that continued from Late Antiquity in to Middle and Late Byzantine architecture, even with some changes.

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Author(s): Vanni F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Eurasian Studies

Year: 2021

Volume: 19

Issue: 1

Pages: 106-128

Online publication date: 07/12/2021

Acceptance date: 12/10/2021

Date deposited: 11/01/2024

ISSN (print): 1722-0750

ISSN (electronic): 2468-5623

Publisher: Brill

URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/24685623-12340111

DOI: 10.1163/24685623-12340111

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