Great Palace Constantinople
The Grand Palais (in Greek / Turkish) is a huge architectural complex of Constantinople composed of palaces. The existence of several building campaigns can be explained by the influence of many emperors who adopted it.
Summary |
History
In the fourth century , Constantine built the kathisma and elements that link it to the palace. He also built the Great Gate and the first extensions.
The Great Hall was used until 1204. Precisely because of its size, maintenance is becoming increasingly problematic and eventually be a resort completely unhealthy. Thus, subsequent emperors preferred to settle in the northwest part of town, near the walls of Theodosius II and of the mythical Golden Horn , between the door of Adrianople and that of Kaligaria. There, the Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus had built on the ruins of the tenth century , the palace of Blachernae. Vestiges of it are still visible.
Description
This leaves almost nothing today, these towering structures except a few traces that bear witness to their glorious past. The only treasures are uncovered mosaic floor of exquisite. Dating from around the sixth century , they were probably part of the decoration of one of the many colonnades. The major themes represented are hunting, daily life, mythological scenes and scenes and bucolic countryside.
Composition
The Grand Palace consists of several buildings:
- Chalk
- This whole which connects the palace with the exterior, which takes its name from the great bronze doors that overlook the square of Augoustaion. The Chalk is rebuilt after a fire in 532. It is surmounted by a chapel containing the relics. Gradually, it lost its function as a main gate of the palace crowned the benefit of the Kathisma. The Chalk is followed by the guards' barracks.
- Triclinos "Nineteen beds"
- Triclinos (reception) used for banquets: an imperial table and 18 tables divided into two rows of nine, being the imperial table on a raised platform of three steps. It is preceded by a courtyard with portico, the court of nineteen beds, where the emperor proclaimed at the top of the Heliakon, a terrace dominating, legislative decisions ceremonies named silentia.
- Palace of Daphne
- Main palace at the time protobyzantine. It contains the Porphyra (porphyry decorated room where the empresses gave birth) and directly overlooks the Kathisma.
- Magnaura
- Reception room of the Grand Palace, built on a terrace. The Magnaura (aula magna is to say "great hall") is composed of three rooms and three apses, which contains the central throne said, "Solomon." The Magnaura is the reception of ambassadors. According Liutprand , it is decorated with animated statues, birds singing and roaring lions. The throne is also equipped with a device allowing a change in height. It already existed in the palace of Constantine. It is oriented to the east entrance to the west.
- Chrisotriclinos
- Imperial throne room, built under Justin II , covered by a dome pierced with sixteen windows. Octagonal, the chrisotriclinos used mainly for banquets and ceremonial liturgical celebrations. The hall can accommodate 102 guests. It seems that apse, whose dead-furnace is decorated with a Christ Pantocrator seated on a throne (sessos) welcomes the throne of the emperor.
- Therme Zeuxippos
- Baths built by Constantine , destroyed in a fire in 532 and rebuilt to serve in prison and a factory kkolumna (precious goods whose production is an imperial monopoly). They are a great place, the gym.
- Palace Boukoln
- Also called "house Homisdas" or "house of Justinian." It is a palace overlooking the Sea of Marmara , with a private port. It was built by Theophilus (829-842).
- Churches
- In particular, the Theotokos of the Pharos and the new church (or simply Naekklesia Nea) built by Basil I the Macedonian. It's in the Theotokos that are preserved imperial relics: crown of thorns, seamless tunic, spear of Longinus, the supper table, stone of the Deposition, basin and washing of the feet Mandylion of Edessa from 944.
- Msokpion
- Largest garden of the Palace, which stretches between Nea and tzykanistrion Palace, a sort of polo field.
- Raceway cover
- Place built on the site of a racetrack inside the palace.
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