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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Hagia Sophia"”.
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Hagia Sophia as a Facture: Originality through Appropriations
… influential buildings of architectural history, Hagia Sophia, which has been a source of wonder and awe since its construction in the sixth century. Since the first temple erected on that site; old-new, future-past, forgetting-remembering are all intertwined in the imaginative act of initiating …
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Static stability and seismic behavior of the dome of the Hagia Sophia
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul represents a culmination of engineering practice and design aesthetics that were emulated extensively by both Byzantine and Ottoman builders. The resiliency and scale of the brick masonry dome of the Hagia Sophia, particularly with respect to its seismically active …
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Painting in Stone: The Symbolism of Colored Marbles in the Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity until the Enlightenment
… to installation art, but key monuments like Hagia Sophia and the Cornaro Chapel offer case studies for in-depth analysis.
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history (inspiring, among others, the sophiological theory of the turn of the …
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World Image after World Empire: The Ptolemaic Cosmos in the Early Middle Ages, ca. 700-900
… monuments, in particular the Horologion of Hagia Sophia and the Anemodoulion, erected by emperors in Constantinople. Its apparent lack of progeny is related to a jealous “economy of knowledge” that developed from social antagonisms between centralizing emperors and elites determined to …
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Architecture and statehood in late Byzantium: a comparative study of Epiros and Trebizond
… of her future burial place, the church of Hagia Theodora, is not self-evident and requires additional documentation. On the contrary, the reign of Nikephoros I (1267/8-1296/8) and Anna Kantakouzene Palaiologina (d. after 1313) emerges from this study as the most important period of building …