Title: The Holy Apostles : a lost monument, a forgotten project, and the presentness of the past /
Authors: Mullett, Margaret; Ousterhout, Robert G.; Gargova, Fani, 1985-; Dumbarton Oaks
Year: 2020
Subjects: Friend, Albert Mathias, Congresses.; Underwood, Paul A. Congresses.; Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) Congresses.; Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) History Sources Congresses.; Dumbarton Oaks Congresses.; Dumbarton Oaks; Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey); Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) Congresses.; Hagioi Apostoloi (Church : Istanbul, Turkey) History Sources Congresses.; Dumbarton Oaks Congresses.; Church buildings Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Church architecture Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Architectural rendering Turkey Istanbul Case studies Congresses.; Architecture, Byzantine Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Mosaics, Byzantine Turkey Istanbul.; Architectural rendering; Architecture, Byzantine; Buildings; Church architecture; Church buildings; Church buildings Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Church architecture Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Architectural rendering Turkey Istanbul Case studies Congresses.; Architecture, Byzantine Turkey Istanbul Congresses.; Istanbul (Turkey) Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.; Turkey Istanbul; Apostelkirche Konstantinopel; Istanbul (Turkey) Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.
Abstract: "Founded by Constantine the Great, rebuilt by Justinian, and redecorated in the ninth, tenth and twelfth centuries, the church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was the mausoleum of emperors, patriarchs, and saints. It was also a key station in the ceremonies of the city, the site of an 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 of Mehmet II after the fall of the 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 of Dumbarton 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 of vantage points, while illuminating differences of approach seventy years later, to arrive at a twenty-first century synthesis"--
Contents: Introduction: Symposium, project, monument / Margaret Mullett -- DUMBARTON OAKS: The 1948 Holy Apostles Symposium and collaborative research at Dumbarton Oaks / James N. Carder -- The Holy Apostles in Constantinople and Washington, DC: the projects of Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., and Paul Underwood / Robert S. Nelson -- MEMORY: Apostolic patterns of thought, from early Christianity to early Byzantium / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- Apostolic succession and Byzantine theology / George E. Demacopoulos -- FOUNDATIONS: Constantine's Apostoleion: a reappraisal / Mark J. Johnson -- Justinian's church of the Holy Apostles: a new reconstruction proposal / Nikolaos Karydis -- Around and about the Holy Apostles in Constantinople / Paul Magdalino -- EKPHRASEIS: Constantine the Rhodian's ekphrasis in its contemporary milieu / Floris Bernard -- Creating the mosaics of the Holy Apostles / Liz James -- The Logos of Nicholas Mesarites / Ruth Macrides- - Inside and outside the Holy Apostles with Nicholas Mesarites / Henry Maguire -- LEGACIES: The church of the Holy Apostles and its place in later Byzantine architecture / Robert G. Ousterhout -- Gennadios Scholarios and the patriarchate: a reluctant patriarch on the "unhappy throne" / Nevra Necipoğ̮lu -- From the founder of Constantinople to the founder of Istanbul: Mehmed the Conqueror, Fatih Camii, and the church of the Holy Apostles / Julian Raby -- CONCLUSION: Concluding remarks / Robert G. Ousterhout -- APPENDIXES: Introduction / Fani Gargova -- A. The Underwood drawings -- B. Selected pages from Albert Mathias Friend, Jr.'s notebooks -- C. Translation of Constantine the Rhodian's poem by Glanville Downey -- D. Paul Underwood, "The architecture of Justinian's church of the Holy Apostles, I" -- E. Paul Underwood, "The architecture of Justinian's church of the Holy Apostles, 2" -- F. Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., "The mosaics of Basil I in the Holy Apostles, part I -- G. Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., "The mosaics of Basil I in the Holy Apostles, part II" -- Letter from Sirapie Der Nersessian to Albert Mathias Friend, Jr., 20 May 1947 -- I. Attendance at the 1948 symposium -- J. Letter from Paul A. Underwood to Father John T. Tavlarides of St. Sophia Cathedral, Washington, DC, 17 June 1963.