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Byzantine Architecture. Byzantine Architecture. Byzantine Period. Lasts from 500 – 1453AD in the Eastern Christian world Constantine founded a new Roman capitol at Byzantium in 330AD and called it Constantinople . It is now called Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey.
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Byzantine Period • Lasts from500 – 1453ADin the Eastern Christian world • Constantinefounded a new Roman capitol at Byzantium in 330AD and called itConstantinople. It is now called Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey. • When Rome fell to the Barbarians in 476AD, Constantinople became the center of the surviving portion of the Roman Empire until it wascaptured by the Ottoman Turks in 1453AD. • We will compare three buildings in this time period to see what makes the styleByzantine: San Vitale in Ravenna, the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul, and San Marco in Venice, Itay.
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy 526-547 AD
Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey 532-537AD Isodorus of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles
1063 – 1085 AD Built 829, burned 976, and then rebuilt 1063