Homage to Byzantium: The Life and Work of Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis |
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Page 41
... architecture of a Byzantine church treasure their own sym- bolisms . On the other hand , Pentzikis often stresses that the symbols of Byzantine art and architecture are drawn from the world of the senses and concretize rather than ...
... architecture of a Byzantine church treasure their own sym- bolisms . On the other hand , Pentzikis often stresses that the symbols of Byzantine art and architecture are drawn from the world of the senses and concretize rather than ...
Page 50
... architecture " points to order and the collaboration of parts to make a functional whole . Tension between these two opposites underlies all of Pentzikis ' works . Architecture of the Scattered Life is one of its author's easiest books ...
... architecture " points to order and the collaboration of parts to make a functional whole . Tension between these two opposites underlies all of Pentzikis ' works . Architecture of the Scattered Life is one of its author's easiest books ...
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... architecture of the Byzantine churches . In this architecture he finds the flight of human souls , of the builder as well as the sponsor of the building . By analogy , the old leather bound covers of Synaxaristis remind him of church ...
... architecture of the Byzantine churches . In this architecture he finds the flight of human souls , of the builder as well as the sponsor of the building . By analogy , the old leather bound covers of Synaxaristis remind him of church ...
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aesthetic Andhreas Dhimakoudhis Angelos Sikelianos Architecture Athens Athos beautiful Borges Byzantine painting Byzantium chapter character Christ Christian Church Church-Going color concrete creative critic dead death Dhiaghonios Elias Petropoulos Ersi essay faith feeling Filing Cabinet fire-walkers flowers George Seferis GEORGE THANIEL Greece Greek Orthodox Greek writers Gregory Palamas Hans Arp Hesychasm Homer Homilies human Hundred Days icons Jacques Lacarrière journal Joyce Kachtitsis Kimon Friar Knowledge of Things Kohlias Kostis Palamas Lacarrière lady light literary literature living Mallarmé memory metaphysical modern Greek modern Greek literature monk Monomahos Mother Thessaloniki mysticism myth mythical narrative narrator Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis non-Greek Novel object painter Palamas Papaloukas Pent Pentzikis seems person poems poet poetry prose reader reality religious Resurrection Retinue rhythm Saint Demetrius says Scattered sense spirit story style suggests symbolic Synaxaristis theme Thessaloniki thought tion tradition translation unity words Yorghos young zikis
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Greece: the Modern Sequel: From 1831 to the Present Giannēs Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremēs No preview available - 2002 |
Greece: The Modern Sequel, from 1831 to the Present Giannēs Koliopoulos,Thanos Veremēs Limited preview - 2002 |