Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955
From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955 explores the pivotal role of Istanbul in the emergence of a new and international and local awareness of the city’s Byzantine heritage. Beyond looking at various moments in the city’s life from 1800 to 1955, the exhibition also considers the dynamic of Istanbul as a center of gravity attracting the monetary and intellectual wealth of empires to further knowledge of Byzantium, ultimately resulting in the emergence of Byzantine studies as a discipline.
The accompanying volume brings together thirteen scholarly papers by Beatrice Daskas, Ceren Abi, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, Mertkan Karaca, Philipp Niewöhner, Edhem Eldem, Pınar Aykaç, Kerim Altuğ, Jean-Michel Spieser, Elena N. Boeck, Jonathan Bardill, Barbara Bessac and Rémi Labrusse, focusing on archaeology, history, art history, architectural history, urbanism, museology, cultural heritage, as well as an explanatory introduction by the exhibition curator Brigitte Pitarakis.
Publication Date: 2021
Number of Pages:650
ISBN: 978-605-4642-97-7
8-9 Foreword
İnan and İpek Kıraç
10-17 Introduction
Brigitte Pitarakis
20-39 Aya Sofia Kibir Giamy Scheriffy: The Fossati Brothers, the Ottoman Capital and the “Superb
Imperial Mosque of Hagia Sophia”
Beatrice Daskas
40-55 Byzantine Archaeology during the First World War and the Allied Occupation (1914–1923): Destruction, Exploration, and Protection
Ceren Abi
56-141 Catalogue nos. 1-43
144-163 Fellow-Citizens around a Shared Heritage: Tradition, Erudition, and Cultural Interchange in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Firuzan Melike Sümertaş
164-177 Writing the Byzantine Past, Reconfiguring the Ottoman Present: Byzantine Art in the Late Ottoman Art Historiography
Mertkan Karaca
178-191 The Discovery of Byzantine Galata: The Case of St. Benoît
Philipp Niewöhner
192-255 Catalogue nos. 44-66
258-273 Byzantium in Istanbul: The Byzantine Collections of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums
Edhem Eldem
274-333 Catalogue nos. 67-96
336-359 From the “Quartier Incendie” to an “Archaeological Park”: An Early Urban Archaeological Conservation Experience in the Sultanahmet District (1912–1953)
Pınar Aykaç
360-389 The Rediscovery of Byzantium in Newspapers during the Construction of Istanbul (1913–1960)
Kerim Altuğ
390-457 Catalogue nos. 97-127
460-473 Considering Byzantium: From Seventeenth-Century Scholars to Twentieth-Century Academics
Jean-Michel Spieser
474-485 Mosaics and Mavericks: Nikodim Kondakov’s Pioneering Studies of the Chora (1880–1886)
Elena N. Boeck
486-511 Ernest Mamboury’s Contribution to the Archaeology of Byzantine Constantinople
Jonathan Bardill
512-575 Catalogue nos. 128-154
578-587 Stage Crafts and the Art of Performing Byzantium in Fin-De-Siècle Paris and London
Barbara Bessac
588-597 Byzantine Modernism: An Account of the First International Exhibition of Byzantine Art in Paris, 1931
Rémi Labrusse
598-636 Catalogue nos. 155-176
637-649 Bibliography for the Catalogue
Exercises in Spaces and Texts
Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, a History
Photographs From and Around Göbeklitepe
The Story of Stories
Works from the Nobel Collection
Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th Century
Photographs of the Rumeli shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th century
Suna Kıraç’ın izinde 10 yılın öyküsü
Rıdvan Akar
A History of Kütahya Pottery and Potters
Ernst Krickl
Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955
Byzantium in Popular Culture
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