Hagia Sophia is a beautiful architectural building. If you see it from the way you want: history, building, museum, church, etc. you can enjoy it.
This building is one of the most important (or the most) monument of Byzantine art expression. And we can discover it looking at the characteristics that it has (of this expression) like domes and mosaics principally.
This time I’m going to mention the mosaics founded in this monument. Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. In this case was the mostly the gold. The interior of the churches in this time were covered with this ones, but almost all of them were destroyed whit the wars.
Also, almost all the mosaics have the same subject characteristic: religion. In almost all the mosaics that have this church relate some divine topic, like saints, another important byzantine characteristic. Also, they put at the royalty in a lower level giving presents to the saints.
I think this glass expression is so beautiful and creative; who did it had so much patience and was very original thinker.
The next mosaic has the characteristics before mentioned, Christ in the middle and a monarch giving him reverence. This mosaic is over the Hagia Sophia’s Imperial Door.
And here are some others mosaics founded on Hagia Sophia:
Again, Christ in the middle and the king Constantine IX and his wife Zoe beside him; made of gold and decorating the interior of the monument.
And here, the virgin whit the kings beside her giving to her another buildings. I think it represented that they were at her disposition. It decorates the inside of the church/museum too.
° Traveling Cam. "Mosaic at the Hagia Siphia". Ulysses Ronquillo. http://travellingcam.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/mosaic-at-the-hagia-sophia/. September 25th 2009.
° Ars Summum. "Mosaico de Cristo y la pareja imperial formada por Constantino IX y Zoé". http://www.arssummum.net/details.php?image_id=2976. September 25th 2009.
° Ars Summum. "Mosaico de Cristo y el basileus León VI (s. IX)". http://www.arssummum.net/details.php?image_id=2975. September 25th 2009.
° Great Buildings. "Hagia Sophia". © 1994-2008 Kevin Matthews and Artifice, Inc. http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Hagia_Sophia.html. September 25th 2009.
° Hagia Sophia. "Mosaics". Hagia Sophia © All Rights Reserved. http://www.hagiasophia.com/listingview.php?listingID=2. September 25th 2009.
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