Acheiropoietos Basilica, Thessaloniki: architecture and sculptural decoration
Abstract
In its present state, Acheiropoietos basilica comprises a phenomenally preserved, typical example of the three-aisled timber-roofed basilica, of the so called Hellenistic type, with narthex and galleries, thus fitting more than any of the monuments maintained in Thessaloniki to the standardized Early Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture. Due to the overall symmetry of its architectural form and the presumable homogeneity of its original sculptural decoration, Acheiropoietos is usually considered as the last maintained architectural composition of the city that still echoes the aesthetics of the Late Antiquity. However, despite the presumable typological inalterability of the monument throughout the fifteen centuries upon its foundation, the building has suffered several devastations, caused mainly by the intense seismic activity of Thessaloniki and its region. Every time the more or less severe damage hazards caused by the historical earthquakes of Thessaloniki were rehabilitated in t ...
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