The Art of the Kariye Camii by Robert G. Ousterhout

The Art of the Kariye Camii

Robert G. Ousterhout

128 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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A touchstone of Byzantine artistic achievement, the church now known as the Kariye Camii in Istanbul preserves impressive cycles of mosaic fresco, for which it is justifiably famous. Once the heart of the Chora monastery, the building was reconstr...

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