phoenix

[jacket image]
[Add to cart]
or
Print an order form.

Robert S. Nelson

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950

Holy Wisdom Modern Monument

304 pages, 11 color plates, 119 halftones  8-1/2 x 11  © 2004

Cloth $125.00

ISBN: 9780226571713   Published July 2004

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Great Church in Ceremony and Censure
2. Romantics and the Throne, 1840-1860: Prussia and France
3. Stones of Byzantium: John Ruskin and The Stones of Venice
4. Making a Picturesque Monument
5. Redemption in England: William Morris, W. R. Lethaby, and Lord Curzon
6. "Starlit Dome": The Byzantine Poems of W. B. Yeats
7. Unveiling the Mosaics: Thomas Whittemore and His American Patrons
8. Revival to Wright: Modern Sophias
Abbreviation List
Notes
Index
Awards
  • PROSE Book Award Honorable Mention
Subjects



You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, consult our international information page.

Questions about this title? email sales@press.uchicago.edu.