The red limestone, now called “Rosalia” in the market, is extracted from a great number of modern quarries located in different places in Bilecik and Vezirhan. Among them, Gülümbe and Taşçılar (formerly Hırtılar) occupy a significant place. These are the oldest known quarries of this red limestone and were most probably reopened over the old…
The ongoing research programme involves collaboration between experts from the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, and the University of Strasbourg. It studies the central part of the Lower Town. This area has been examined through the 2015 georadar survey performed by a team from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Vienna. The Tetraconch was entered from a semicircular…
Renaissance art theoreticians used to describe the Italian paintings of the Duecento “alla maniera greca” as being “awkward” (“goffa”), “old-fashioned” (“vecchia”) and “smoky” (“affumata”). However pejorative, such words confirm the reality of close contacts between the Byzantine and Italian worlds, which intensified after the Fourth Crusade. Indeed, the 13th century was marked by intense artistic…
L’obiettivo di questa ricerca è esaminare la produzione architettonica dell’epoca costantiniana. Si mira a ottenere un’analisi completa, evitando approcci parziali o specifici che spesso caratterizzano le trattazioni sull’opera di Costantino. Attraverso l’analisi di una serie di monumenti attribuibili all’età costantiniana mediante tecniche non invasive per il rilievo e la documentazione del patrimonio culturale, unendo telerilevamento…
This presentation shows an ongoing project dedicated to the three-dimensional survey and digital preservation of Byzantine churches in the historically significant Laconia region of Greece. Constructed between the fourth and fifteenth centuries, several churches in this region exhibit significant deterioration. Employing photogrammetry via UAVs, action cameras and DSLR cameras, the project has thus far achieved…