The Hagia Sophia. Part 4 - The Mosaics
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2022
- The Hagia Sophia is the most important Byzantine building and so it will take 5 videos to do it justice. This is part 4 where we look at the Byzantine mosaics which light up the building.
This video is part of a series - 'The History of Byzantium goes to Istanbul.' In 2018 the listeners of the podcast funded a Kickstarter to send me to Istanbul. I documented many of the surviving Byzantine sites and have made videos about them.
I am now able to offer tours to Istanbul (and beyond) for listeners of the podcast. Email me if you'd like to know more (thehistoryofbyzantium at gmail.com).
Video edited by / suhlefilm
For more information about Byzantine Constantinople visit www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/. It's a fantastic website providing breakdowns of the Byzantine buildings that can still be seen today and there you'll find most of the still images and sketches used in these videos.
'The History of Byzantium' is a podcast telling the story of the Roman Empire from 476 AD to 1453. The podcast home page is here thehistoryofbyzantium.com/ and you can support the show at / historyofbyzantium
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Great vídeo and research about Hagia Sophia museum.
The mosaic Jesus pantokrator, mother Mary and John the Baptist is a master piece.
Congratulations
Rio
Excellent! Thank you so much!
This is a wonderful series. Thank you.
Thanks for this informative video.
Thank you again. This entire Byz project means so much to me. Like I can reach out and touch the History, I am so happy.
Nice work Robin! I thoroughly enjoy the series.
beauiful. thank you
Λεων ο σοφος has "strugled " with the church for his third and fourth marriages ,not for the sake of concupiscence, but because out of the two firsth marriages he had only one surviving daughter Anna born to Ζωη Τσαουτσινα but no male heir.Only his fourth marriage produced not only his successor Κωνσταντινος VII but the survival of the Amorid dynasty until 1056 ! Leon was a pious emperor who composed liturgical musical works and who sustained the church his life long.
İrenke/Piroska neni,ö a valodi Kincs az egesz Ayasofya-bol (egy kicsit magyar törtenelem İsztambulba)!!!
the western art critics of the 19 and 20th centuries regarded
these mosaics and their contemporary gothic art as primitive...
I don't. I regard those critics as close-minded
The giant Arabic billboards are so insulting. Completely ruin the size and scale of the building.
@oscarsalesgirl296
Hagia Sophia is still being
used both as a mosque and
a museum. Like it or not,
it is the reality. I agree that
those discs do not blend
with the other designs.
When the HS was turned into a museum the discs were going to be removed. But they are bigger than the doors! So it was decided to leave them in place rather than destroy them. With the reconversion to a mosque something similar might have been installed. By keeping them in place it does give a sense of the building as it was in the 18th and 19th centuries.
dogs like to piss to mark their presence