This building was restored by the Fossati brothers, who catalogued its mosaics, including four black-winged seraphim with gold-covered faces. A building of this name in Iznik contains a more regular pattern of marble circles, called an omphalion, than the original. This building was the first to use fully-developed pendentivesÂ—four here surmount [*] calligraphy-bearing roundels and support this church's dome, whose base is perforated by forty arched windows. This church's patron claimed to have outdone Solomon. In 1453, this church, designed by Anthemius of Tralles an
This building was restored by the Fossati brothers, who catalogued its mosaics, including four black-winged seraphim with gold-covered faces. A building of this name in Iznik contains a more regular pattern of marble circles, called an omphalion, than the original. This building was the first to use fully-developed pendentivesÂ—four here surmount [*] calligraphy-bearing roundels and support this church's dome, whose base is perforated by forty arched windows. This church's patron claimed to have outdone Solomon. In 1453, this church, designed by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus, was converted to a mosque. For 10 points, name this church of Holy Wisdom commissioned by Justinian in Constantinople.
This building was restored by the Fossati brothers, who catalogued its mosaics, including four black-winged seraphim with gold-covered faces.
Hagia Sophia [or Ayasofya; accept Church of Holy Wisdom before mentioned]