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Mitteilungen Des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, Romische Abteilung
- Band 114, 2008
(German, Hardcover)
Anastasia Angelinoudi, Johannes Bauerlein, Oliver Becker, Salvatore De Vincenzo, Rom Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts, …
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This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute
the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban
built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple
standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines
as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the
role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their
prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and
as, larger sacred habitats and ritualistic settings; and affirming
their influential role in the contemporary Indian metropolis.Going
beyond stereotypical presentations of Hindu temples dominated by
chronological and stylistic themes, this study, addressed to
architects, urbanists, and builders, combines historic scholarship,
documentation, personal observations and fieldwork to expand the
idea of the Hindu temple as a complex and contradictory cultural
entity, that is both formal and informal, monumental and modest,
historic and modern, and deserving of a far broader and deeper
understanding.
The cathedral of Parma is one of the most controversial Italian
church buildings - even today. This volume discusses themes from
the cathedral's construction workshop and building body to the use
of spolia and iconographic planning processes. German text.
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