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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they have succeeded in conveying a certain cumulative impression of the surpassing fascination of St. Sophia. They evidently held that St. Sophia is not to be studied lightly, for they deliberately and exhaustively quartered the ground, giving, in the result, a vivid impression of the extraordinary art of the time of Justinian, an art which displayed a vigour of intellect and freedom from pedantry all the more remarkable in that it occurred at a period when the empire was far down the road of its long decline. The church of St. Sophia, as it now exists, was the second building on the site; and, with the doubtful exception of the circular brick building to the N.E. of the church, there are practically no remains of Constantine's church, which appears to have been of moderate size with a wooden roof. The old materials were no doubt used again by Justinian's builders, and fragments may be traced here and there. Constantine appears to have begun his church about 328 A.d.; and the building was dedicated by the Emperor Constantius in 360. It was burnt in 404, and restored by Theo- dosius II. in 415. In 532 the church was burnt to the ground in the Nika outbreak; and Justinian at once set to work to rebuild it on the original site. The account of the anonymous writer, which Messrs. Lethaby and Swainson assign to the twelfth century, gives the various legends which gradually grew up round the building of the church ? how Justinian spent seven years and a half in collecting his marble columns; how he pulled down the remains of Constantine's church, and obtained possession of the adjoining properties by methods the unscrupulous cunning of which appeared to the anonymous writer not less admirable than the piety of their intention; how, too, when the architects and builders were at ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217877541
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217877540
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr

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