EditorialHagia Triada Sarcophagus. Early Bronze Age. Limestone. Detail of one of the long sides, divided into three panels, depicting a female procession, a bull sacrifice accompanied by music, and a man making offerings to an altar in front of a shrine crowned...
EditorialChrist enthroned, blessing. In the medallion left Saint Mary, right the archangel Gabriel. The kneeling figure Emperor Leo VI (886-912). Tympanon in the narthex, above the " Emperor's door", one of the nine doors leading from the narthex into...
EditorialBYZANTINE ART. Sancta Sophia church (HAGIA SOPHIA). Built by Manuel Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzenus Palaiologos, first despot of Mistras . Was always the palace's chapel and has been identified with the monastery of Christ Zoodotes, erected by Manuel be...
EditorialHagia Sophia, Illustration and plan of the temple of St. Sophia from the 18th century, signed: J. B. F. v. Chr., E. del, TA., VI, p. 146, Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard (del.), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach: Entwurff einer historischen Archit...