The book that put Hagia Sophia on a scholarly footing: the fire of 532 and the five-year rebuilding, Anthemius and Isidore and how the dome was made to stand, the marbles and mosaics and the sources that describe them, the later repairs — and Paul the Silentiary’s poem, translated, describing the church when new.
The classic study of the greatest building in Byzantium. Download the free EPUB.