Hagia Sophia (Church of the Holy Wisdom)

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Creator Anthemius of Tralles -- Architect -- Byzantine -- Male; Isidorus of Miletus -- Architect -- Byzantine -- Male
Title Hagia Sophia (Church of the Holy Wisdom)
Spatial Coverage Constantinople, Byzantine Empire -- Formerly known as; Istanbul, Marmara Region, Turkey
Latitude 41.008611
Longitude 28.98
Description Exterior, northeast facade buttresses.
Work Dates 532-537 CE with partial reconstruction and additions
Century 6
Style Period Byzantine, Early Byzantine
Culture Byzantine; Turkish
Technique Bearing masonry
Subject Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Churches -- Cathedrals; Ceremonial structures -- Religious structures -- Religious buildings -- Mosques; Architectural elements -- Buttresses
Image Source Toni Kofnic (Architecture graduate student).
Rights Digital image copyright 2004, University of Utah. All rights reserved.
Contributing Institution University of Utah
CA+P Accession No. U00 ARCH-29541
Format image/jpeg
Type Image
Digitization Specifications Scanned with a Nikon LS-4000 ED film scanner and saved as uncompressed TIFF. Color corrected manually in Photoshop CS and converted to JPEG.
ARK ark:/87278/s66m39t6
Setname uu_cap_coa
ID 87813
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s66m39t6
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