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[Note: A fuller record for
example number 148 can be seen at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cdwa/examples/116_
Byzantine_church.html]
Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• architecture • Byzantine art
*Work
Type [link]: •
church • mosque • museum
*Title/Name: Hagia
Sophia Title Type: preferred
*Title/Name: Church
Of The Holy Wisdom Title
Type: alternate
*Title/Name: Ayasofya
Title Type: alternate
*Title/Name: Santa
Sofia Title Type: alternate
*Creator
Display: Isidoros of Miletus (Asia
Minor, active mid-6th century) and Anthemius of
Tralles (Asia Minor, ca. 474-ca. 534)
*Role
[cont.]: architect [link]: Isidoros
of Miletus
*Role
[cont.]: architect [link]: Anthemius
of Tralles
*Creation
Date Display: church was built 532
to 537 and the dome replaced in 563 after an earthquake
[controlled]: Earliest:
0532 Latest: 0563
*Subject
[links]: •
architecture • religion and mythology •
Holy Wisdom (Christian iconography) • worship
• mosques • museums • basilicas
Style: [links]:
Byzantine
Culture [link]: Byzantine
*Current
Location [link]: Istanbul
(Turkey)
*Measurements:
central dome with half-domes: 32.6 (width) x 68.6
m (length) (107 x 225 feet)
[controlled] Extent: dome
Value: 32.6
Unit: m Type: width
| Value: 68.6
Unit: m Type: length
*Materials
and Techniques: system bearing masonry,
centralized plan
Material [links]: •
masonry Technique
[links]: • load bearing walls •
centralized plan
Description: From
the date of its dedication in 360 until 1453,
it served as the cathedral of Constantinople except
between 1204 and 1261, when it was the cathedral
of the Latin empire. The building was a mosque
from 23 May 1453 until 1934, when it was secularized;
it was opened as a museum on 1 February 1935.
Description Source
[links]: Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online (accessed 6 August, 2006).
Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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