HSTR 337A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Flamboyant, Islamic Architecture, Fourth Crusade
20 Sep 2017
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Dr. koch: st. ursula; daughter of british ruler decided to go on a grand tour that would end in. Orthodox church: 1204 sack of byzantium, relic market suffered a correction because constantinople was a major religious center- value of relics fell considerably, significant: venetian occupation of the byzantine empire; latin-byzantine. Empire-clear time that venetians are a major power state within europe: 1204-1261 venetian rule, genevieve"s eventually drive out the venetians- major rivals. Islamic architecture was a large influence, wanted to imitate the apostoleion: after the conquest 1204, st. mark"s was decorated with four horses- taken from. Byzantium and placed in this prominent place of st. mark"s square to exhibit the power of venice and the fact that it will replace byzantine"s power: venetians brought back souvenirs as an example that venice has replaced. Byzantine as trophies; acre pillars: three figures; the depictions of the porphyry- successors of alexander the. Great; taken from byzantium at the foundation of st. marks.
