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INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF<br />
THE ARCHITECTURAL AND DECORATIVE BYZANTINE<br />
SCULPTURE IN TURKEY<br />
Eugenio RUSSO*<br />
The study of the architectural and decorati<strong>ve</strong> Byzantine sculpture in Turkey<br />
which has been carried out since 1996, in the frame of a research with the authorization<br />
of the Turkish Go<strong>ve</strong>rnment, started in 1970 focusing its attention on the production<br />
existing in Ra<strong>ve</strong>nna; since then it has gone on uninterruptedly with the study of the<br />
sculptures in Ra<strong>ve</strong>nna 1 and in its surroundings 2, in the Upper Adriatic (Parenzo) 3, in<br />
Rome 4, in Palestine 5, in Venice and in its area, as works coming from Constantinople 6.<br />
One of the points of the research has concerned the diffusion of materials coming<br />
from Constantinople into the Western Mediterranean basin. It is in fact, a common<br />
shared opinion, starting with Kautzsch’s contribution 7, of the role played by the<br />
Capital on the Bosphorus in the diffusion of works in the whole Mediterranean basin,<br />
thanks also to the marble quarries situated in the Proconnesian island. The scholar<br />
mainly in favour of the importance and function carried out by the Capital has been<br />
F.W. Deichmann: according to the great German scholar we can see a diffusion of artefacts<br />
and ideas in the Mediterranean basin, but not one of architects and workers; it<br />
was a mobility of ideas and sculptures, worked and ready for use, made out of Proconnesian<br />
marble, but not a mobility of workers. Deichmann is inclined to admit the presence<br />
in loco of artists from Constantinople only in the evident case that marble is local<br />
or reworked and the product re<strong>ve</strong>als the style of the workers from the capital. This<br />
is the case with the Cathedral of Stobi, with the basilica A in Nea Anchialos, with Basi-<br />
* Prof. Dr. Eugenio RUSSO, Uni<strong>ve</strong>rsita degli Studi di Bologna Facolta di Cons. Beni Culturali Via Mariani 5 48100<br />
Ra<strong>ve</strong>nna/İTALYA<br />
1 E. Russo, StudRomagn, 19 (1968, but published 1971), pp. 321-330.<br />
2 E. Russo, Studi sulla scultura paleocristiana e altomedievale, Spoleto 1974 and StudMed, 15, 1 (1974), pp. 25-142;<br />
AttiMemDepMarche, 86 (1981, but 1983), pp. 461-508; RACr, 61 (1985, but 1986), pp. 119-158; in Pesaro tra Medioevo<br />
e Rinascimento, Venezia 1989, pp. 79-147; RACr, 67 (1991, but 1992), pp. 383-404; VetChr, 29 (1992), pp. 137-<br />
160; Ra<strong>ve</strong>nnaStudRic, 4, 2 (1997), pp. 97-146.<br />
3 E. Russo, Sculture del complesso eufrasiano di Parenzo, Napoli 1991; in Medioevo: immagine e racconto (Atti del<br />
Con<strong>ve</strong>gno internazionale di Studi, Parma, 27-30 settembre 2000), Venezia 2003, pp. 142-161.<br />
4 E. Russo, MEFRM, 94, 1 (1984), pp. 7-48; RendPARA, 55-56 (1982-1984, but 1985), pp. 3-33; in Studi in memoria<br />
di Giuseppe Bovini, Ra<strong>ve</strong>nna 1989, pp. 597-610; in Aurea Roma. Dalla città pagana alla città cristiana (Catalogo della<br />
Mostra, Roma, 22 dicembre 2000 – 20 aprile 2001), Roma 2000, pp. 191-199, 644-646; in Ecclesiae Urbis (Atti del<br />
Congresso internazionale di studi, Roma, 4-10 settembre 2000), Città del Vaticano 2002, pp. 1629-1632.<br />
5 E. Russo, ActaAAHist, s. a., 6 (1987), pp. 113-248.<br />
6 E. Russo, in Storia dell’arte marciana: sculture, tesoro, arazzi (Atti del Con<strong>ve</strong>gno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 11-<br />
14 ottobre 1994), Venezia 1997, pp. 125-163. See also in Queritur in<strong>ve</strong>ntus colitur. Miscellanea in onore di P. Umberto<br />
Maria Fasola, Città del Vaticano 1989, pp. 671-695; in Historiam pictura refert. Miscellanea in onore di P. Alejandro<br />
Recio Veganzones, Città del Vaticano 1994, pp. 497-512.<br />
7R. Kautzsch, Kapitellstudien, Berlin-Leipzig 1936.<br />
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