THE HOLY APOSTLES. A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project, and the Presentness of the Past

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THE HOLY APOSTLES
DUMBARTON OAKS BYZANTINE SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA
Editori.al Board
Dimitcr G. Angclov
John Duffy
Ioli Kalavrczou
THE HOLY APOSTLES
A Lost Monument, a Forgotten Project,
and the Presentness of the Past
Edited by
MARGARET MULLETT AND ROBERT G. OUSTERHOUT
WITH APPENDIXES PREPARED BY FAN! GARGOVA
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY AND COLLECTION
WASHINGTON, DC
© 2.02.0 by Dumbanon Oaks Research Library and Collection
Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, DC
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING·IN·PUBLICATION DATA
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Names: Mullett, Margaret, editor. Ousterhout, Robert G., editor. Gargova, Fani, 1985-editor.
Dumbarton Oaks, hose institution.
Title: The Holy Apostles: a lost monument, a forgotten project, and the presenmess of the past/
edited by Margaret Mullett and Robert G. Ousterhout; with appendixes prepared by Fani Gargova.
Other tides: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia.
Description: Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2 .02.0]
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Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine symposia and colloquia Papers from the Byzantine Studies symposium held
April 2.4-2.6, 2.015 at Dumbanon Oaks in Washington, D.C.; Symposiarchs: Margaret Mullett and Robert G. Ousterhout.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; with passages in Greek and Syriac.
Summary: ·Founded by Conscantine the Great, rebuilr byJ ustinian, and redecorated in the ninth, tenth, and twelfth centuries,
the church of the Holy Apostles in Conscantinople was the mausoleum ofe mperors, patriarchs, and saints. It was also a key
station in the ceremonies oft he city, the site ofa n important school, a major inspiration for apostolic literature, and, briefly,
the home of the patriarch. Despite its importance, the church no longer exists, replaced by the mosque ofMehmet II after
the fall oft he city to the Ottomans. Today it is remembered primarily from two important middle Byzantine ekphraseis,
which celebrate its beauty and importance, as well as from architectural copies and manuscript illustrations. Scholars have
long puzzled over its appearance, as well as its importance to the Byzantines. Anxious to reconstruct the building and its
place in the empire, an early collaborative project ofD umbarton Oaks brought together a philologist, an art historian, and
an architectural historian in the 1940s and 1950s to reconstruct their own version of the Holy Apostles. Never fully realized,
their efforts remained unpublished. The essays in this volume reconsider their project from a variety ofv antage points, while
illuminating differences ofa pproach seventy years later, to arrive at a twenty-first century synthesis"- Provided by publisher.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2020003448 ISBN 9780884024644 (cloth)
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Subjects: LCSH: Hagioi Apostoloi {Church: Istanbul, Turkcy)-Congresses, Hagioi Apostoloi {Church : Istanbul, Turkey)
Hlstory-Sources-Congrcsses, 1D umbarton Oaks- Congresses, I Church buildings-Turkey-Istanbul-Congresses.
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Church architecture-Turkey-Istanbul-Congresses, Architectural rendering-Turkey-Istanbul-Case studies
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Congresscs. Architecture, Byzantine-Turkey-Istanbul-Congresses. Istanbul (Turkey)-Buildings, structures,
ctc,-Congresscs.
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Classiflcation: LCC NA5870.H34 H65 2020 DDC 726.509496I/8-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003448
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
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I INTRODUCTION
Symposium, Project, Monument
MARGARET MULLETT
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DUMBARTON OAKS
2 THE 1948 HOLY APOSTLES SYMPOSIUM AND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
AT DUMBARTON OAKS
JAMES N. CARDER
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THE HOLY APOSTLES IN CONSTANTINOPLE AND WASHINGTON, DC
The Projects ofA lbert Mathias Friend,Jr., and Paul Underwood
ROBERTS. NELSON
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MEMORY
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APOSTOLIC PATTERNS OF THOUGHT, FROM EARLY CHRISTIANITY
TO EARLY BYZANTIUM
SCOTT FITZGERALD JOHNSON
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APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION AND BYZANTINE THEOLOGY
GEORGEE. DEMACOPOULOS
67
FOUNDATIONS
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CONSTANTINE'S APOSTOLEION
A Reappraisal
MARK J. JOHNSON
79
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}USTINI.AiN'S CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
A New Reconstruction Proposal
NIKOLAOS KARYDIS
99
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AROUND AND ABOUT THE HOLY APOSTLES IN CONSTANTINOPLE
PAUL MAGDALINO
131
EKPHRASEIS
9 CONSTANTINE THE RHODIAN'S EKPHRASIS IN ITS CONTEMPORARY MILIEU
FLORIS BERNARD
145
10 CREATING THE MOSAICS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES
LIZ JAMES
157
l l THE LOGOS OF NICHOLAS MESARITES
RUTH MACRIDES
175
l 2 INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOLY APOSTLES WITH NICHOLAS MESARITES
HENRY MAGUIRE
193
LEGACIES
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THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES AND ITS PLACE
IN LATER BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE
ROBERT G. OUSTERHOUT
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GENNADIOS SCHOLARIOS AND THE PATRIARCHATE
A Reluctant Patriarch on the "Unhappy Throne"
NEYRA NECIPOGLU
2.37
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FROM THE FOUNDER OF CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE FOUNDER OF ISTANBUL
Mehmed the Conqueror, Fatih Camii, and the Church oft he Holy Apostles
JULIAN RABY
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