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Neue Forschungen Zum Fruhen Christentum in Den Balkanlandern

Neue Forschungen Zum Fruhen Christentum in Den Balkanlandern

          
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English summary: The goal of this publication is the complete, up-to-date presentation of the late antique and early Christian mosaics obtained or documented in Bulgaria. A first volume on wall paintings has already been published by the OAW in 1999. The current volume comprises a collection of publications resulting from a cooperation between Bulgarian regional museums and scholars, and was initiated by the Christian Archaeology research group, at that time under the leadership of Renate Pillinger with the Bulgarian mosaic specialist Vanja Popova of the Institute for Art of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAN) in Sofia. The publication starts with the background of the excavations. Like the already-published corpus on wall paintings, here too the sequence of individual monuments emerges from geographical situation. For each mosaic, the place where it was found is specified, as well as the find-context with a short description of the building or room in which it was found, who excavated it and when. Its state of preservation, the placement and form, technique, arrangement as well as figural and ornamental motifs are all treated. In the case of those comparative examples that have been identified, brief comments are offered with an attempt at interpretation. At the end of each contribution, a complete bibliography or the indication as "unpublished" appears - which suggests the need for an initial publication. Images and plans are included as far as is possible. The excavation finds directly suggest a strong decline in the production of mosaics in the 6th century. No paviment that originates after the middle of the 6th century is known to this day. Of the 24 late antique mosaic inscriptions that have come to us, 19 are in Greek and five in Latin. As in the preceding era, most of the 4th century mosaics still come from the secular domain, distinguished residences and public buildings (above all bath complexes). As part of growing Christianity the picture, however, changes around the end of the 4th century in favor of the early Christian sacred buildings, whose floor mosaics now doubly surpass the quantity of those in private residential complexes. The first early Christian churches were largely furnished with stone slab flooring, but in the second half of the 4th century a mosaic decor has an unforeseen boom. The dominant mosaics of this time period are strictly geometrical compositions; these are well-suited for the long rectangular naoi and with their rhythmic, repeated floor composition, suitably escort the entrance of the clerics from the church entry to the altar. Sometimes figural motifs connected with the Christian faith are incorporated into floor mosaics laid out in the apse and/or the presbyterium. In addition, in many cases the area reserved for the clergy is laid out with opus sectile paviment. After the second half of the 4th century one can hardly distinguish between formal and compositional differences between mosaics of early Christian and secular buildings, which results from the operation of the same mosaic workshops for both spheres. Without a doubt, the purism of aniconic-geometrical decoration especially sprung from the sacred buildings. German description: Ziel der vorliegenden Sammelpublikation ist die vollstandige Vorlage der auf heutigem bulgarischen Staatsgebiet erhaltenen bzw. dokumentierten spatantiken und fruhchristlichen Mosaiken. Sie wurde von der Arbeitsgruppe Christliche Archaologie unter der fruheren Leitung von Renate Pillinger gemeinsam mit Vanja Popova vom Institut fur Kunstwissenschaft der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Sofia initiiert und in Kooperation mit bulgarischen Regionalmuseen und Wissenschaftern erstellt. Die Veroffentlichung erfolgt vor dem Hintergrund der Grabungsbefunde. Analog zum bereits 1999 erschienenen Wandmalerei-Corpus ergibt sich die Reihung der einzelnen Denkmaler nach geografischen Gesichtspunkten. Zu jedem Mosaik wird jeweils der Fundort angegeben, der Fundkontext mit einer kurzen Beschreibung des zugehorigen Gebaudes oder Raumes und wer es wann freilegte. Abgehandelt werden Erhaltungszustand, Lage und Gestalt, Technik, Gliederung sowie figurliche und ornamentale Motive. Auf die ermittelten Vergleichsbeispiele folgen kurzgefasste Kommentare mit dem Versuch einer Interpretation. Am Ende jedes Beitrags steht die vollstandige Bibliografie oder der Hinweis "unpubliziert". Soweit moglich, sind Abbildungen und Plane beigegeben. Die Grabungsbefunde legen nahe, dass die Mosaikproduktion im 6. Jahrhundert stark abnahm. Derzeit ist kein einziges Paviment bekannt, welches nach der Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts entstanden ist. Bei den 24 auf uns gekommenen spatantiken Mosaikinschriften handelt es sich um 19 griechische und funf lateinische. Wie in der vorangegangenen Epoche stammen die meisten Mosaike des 4. Jahrhunderts nach wie vor aus dem profanen Bereich, reprasentativen Wohnhausern und offentlichen Gebauden (vor allem Badeanlagen). Im Zuge des aufstrebenden Christentums wandelt sich das Bild jedoch gegen Ende des Jahrhunderts zugunsten der fruhchristlichen Sakralbauten, deren Bodenmosaiken nun jene der privaten Wohnkomplexe quantitativ um das Doppelte ubertreffen. Waren die ersten fruhchristlichen Kirchen vor allem mit Steinplattenboden versehen, so erlebt deren musivische Ausstattung in der zweiten Jahrhunderthalfte einen ungeahnten Aufschwung. Die zu dieser Zeit dominierenden streng geometrischen Kompositionen eignen sich gut als Dekor fur die langrechteckigen Naoi und begleiten den Einzug des Klerus vom Kircheneingang bis zum Altar durch ihre sich rhythmisch wiederholende Bodengestaltung. Wo man in der Apsis und/oder dem Presbyterium Bodenmosaiken verlegte, sind manchmal mit dem christlichen Glauben verbundene figurale Motive ausgefuhrt. Ferner ist der den Klerikern vorbehaltene Bereich in mehreren Fallen mit einem Opus-sectile-Paviment bedeckt. Ab der zweiten Halfte des 4. Jahrhunderts kann man kaum formale und kompositorische Unterschiede zwischen Mosaiken fruhchristlicher und profaner Gebaude feststellen, was in der Tatigkeit derselben Mosaikwerkstatten in beiden Bereichen begrundet ist. Der Purismus der anikonisch-geometrischen Dekorationen ging aber sicherlich vor allem von den Sakralbauten aus.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783700178170
  • Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 157
  • Series Title: Archaologische Forschungen
  • ISBN-10: 3700178174
  • Publisher Date: 27 Nov 2015
  • Language: German
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 951 gr


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