Inspiration and creation in byzantine architecture

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Published: Sep 22, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.18469
Keywords:
Byzantine architecture symbolism centrally planned buildings cross-shaped churches basilicas galleries entresols double stylobate.
Γεώργιος ΒΕΛΕΝΗΣ (Georgios VELENIS)
Professor emeritus Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Abstract
The article deals with the factors that determined the evolution of Christian church-building from the 4th century to the Late Byzantine period. These factors include the need for expressing Christian ideology at the level of architectural conception. The architects, influenced by centrally domed buildings and timber-roofed basilicas, created dromic buildings with the dome as the dominant feature. During the period of Iconoclasm cross-shaped compositions predominated, which were propagated in various ways in later centuries. After the end of the 9th century, monasticism played a defining role in the development of church building.
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