The fifteenth-century architect Sinan (1489-1588) was a master mosque builder who employed perfect proportions to create astonishing lightness in architecture--especially in his gravity-defying cupolas. ...
La 'Historia turco-bizantina' de Ducas es un excepcional documento del último siglo de la vida de Bizancio aunque, para ser más exactos, en realidad ...
Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous ...
Primera edición española de la edición francesa de 1883. El autor, ingeniero civil,realiza un estudio completo de los procesos y técnicas constructivas en Bizancio. ...
When it was first published, Godfrey Goodwin's study immediately established itself as a definitive work on the subject. It remains the only comprehensive survey ...