Chora
Subtitle: the scroll of heaven
By: text, Cyril Mango ; photography and editorial coordination, Ahmet Ertuğ
Contributors: Ertuğ, Ahmet
Publisher: Ertuğ & Kocabiyik
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Istanbul, Turkey?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Kariye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey) -- Pictorial works; Mosaics, Byzantine -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Pictorial works; Mural painting and decoration, Byzantine -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Pictorial works; Architecture, Byzantine -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- Pictorial works; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works
Notes: "December 2000"--Colophon

Seven folded leaves

Issued in illustrated slip case showing the mosaic on the South dome depicting the genealogy of Christ and the fresco scene of a flying angel rolling up the heavens found in the parecclesion

Illustrated endpapers showing a mosaic decorative pattern within the Chora

Cover of  green, slightly iridescent cloth with a rough texture made of a darker green; has gold lettering with an eight points gold "baptismal cross" with a circle just inside the points.  The cross duplicates a mosaic design found in the North dome.  Spine of gold cloth with a rough texture of a light green; carries green lettering and one small abstract design also found withing the Chora

Colored illustration of a panorama of Constantinople shortly before the Turkish conquest, from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (Nuremburg, 1493)--p. 19

Illustrations include: Western facade before the Restoration of 1875-6, after A.G. Paspatis (p. 25) and the West Facade, c. 1900, from a photograph by Sebah and Joallier (p. 29)

The Chora Church  (Kariye Kilisesi) became a mosque, Kariye Camii (1511-1948), and then became a museum, the Kariye Müzesi, in 1958

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254)
Table of contents: title: I.  Historical sketch - II. The monument; title: III.  The mosaics: The dedicatory panels; title: The genealogy of Christ and the Virgin Mary; title: The narrative cycles (The early life of the Virgin Mary; title: The infancy of Christ; title: The ministry of Christ); title: Single figures; title: The nave; title: IV.  The frescoes; title: The Anastasis of Chora; title: V.  The tombs; title: VI.  The art of the mosaics and frescoes; title: Bibliography; title: Authors