History of mediæval art . in the diagonals in or-der that the widths of the lateraland of the corner spaces on theH floor and in the galleries shouldnot be too dissimilar. In the cen-tral enclosure the sides parallelto the square were consequentlyformed by straight lines. Therewas, of course, no gallery on theside opposite the entrance, wherestood the altar. The most important and themost perfect monument of By-zantine architecture, St. Sophia inConstantinople (Church of the Divine Wisdom), was begun but littleafter S. Vitale and St. Sergius. The Constantine basilica whichstood upon the site h
History of mediæval art . in the diagonals in or-der that the widths of the lateraland of the corner spaces on theH floor and in the galleries shouldnot be too dissimilar. In the cen-tral enclosure the sides parallelto the square were consequentlyformed by straight lines. Therewas, of course, no gallery on theside opposite the entrance, wherestood the altar. The most important and themost perfect monument of By-zantine architecture, St. Sophia inConstantinople (Church of the Divine Wisdom), was begun but littleafter S. Vitale and St. Sergius. The Constantine basilica whichstood upon the site had been burned in the year 532, on the occa-sion of an uprising of the populace, and Justinian took advantageof this to commemorate his victory by a magnificent was probably the destruction of the earlier church by the flameswhich led to the adoption of fire-proof vaulting throughout thenew edifice. Never before had this system of construction beenattempted on so extended a scale. It cannot be regarded as a. ? 1 a 5 10 soMtr* Fig. 32.—Plan of the Church of St. Sergius in Constantinople. ST. SOPHIA. 57 mere chance that both the architects to whom the task was in-trusted were Asiatics by birth—Isidoros of Miletos and Anthemiosof Tralles. In five years after the fire the new church was readyfor consecration. Soon after this it was much injured by an earth-quake, but was restored with even greater splendor, according tothe plans of the younger Isidoros, a nephew of the first is well known that, after having served as a Christian church fornearly a thousand years, the building has become the chief mosque
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