Contemporary State of Research, Goals and Preliminary Conclusions Regarding the Architecture of Medieval Crimea

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10.2991/icassee-17.2018.33How to use a DOI?

Keywords

medieval architecture; archeology; Crimea; integration of architectural traditions

Abstract

This paper looks into the present-day stage of studies on Crimean Medieval architecture, focusing on their specific features and defining the objects for future work, which is expected to place them within a broader context, in close connection with other historical research dedicated to Mediterranean, Eastern European and Black Sea region art. The limited scope of themes covered by previous works on the subject, which were conducted mainly by archaeologists, were not closely connected with those questions that are usually put forward and answered by art historians, including specialists on architecture. Presently, in studying the latter in Crimea, it is essentially important to introduce a specific approach used by art historians, moving away from describing exclusively construction technique and typology. Outlining the architectural image of the edifices may certainly help us clarify the process of integration with regard to national traditions of Greeks, Armenians, Genoeses, Karaites, people of the Golden Horde and Tartars, who succeeded them, i.e. all those who had lived on the peninsula for centuries. They created numerous buildings that can be compared in the light of their construction methods, architectural details and ornamentation. A look at Crimean edifices will appear especially fruitful, if we turn to various approaches based on critical analysis in studying every construction against the background of a broader context, involving the development of Medieval architecture.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2017)
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