Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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-buildings.^Sophia, of the Cathedral of S. Sophia. The architects whomnopie^^ Justinian summoned to the task were Anthemius ofTralles, who surpassed in constructive skilP all his con-temporaries and predecessors, and Isidorus of Miletus,both of them—be it observed—from the Asiatic part ofthe Empire. For the description of the plan, which wasquite novel, and has never been rivalled or repeated,we cannot do better than follow the account given byProcopius^ who watched the building as it rose (Fig. 22).The apse At the cast end is a semicircular apse— what those whoknow about such things call a half cylinder, covered bya semi-dome. Right and left are pillars set in semi-circles like dancers in a chorus, forming the two ^ ejrt (ro(pia TJj KaXovfiivrj ftT))(aviKfj XoyiaraTos, Procop. (fe Aedif. i. I. 2 Procopius was Secretary to Belisarius. His praises of that hero in hishistories roused the jealousy of Justinian, and the book, de Aedificiis, waswritten to atone for this indiscretion.
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