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Side Note
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Hagia Sophia
- Built in the 520s AD
- Built by Justinian
- Originally a church, became a mosque, now museum
- Holy Wisdom
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Effects
- Huge.
- Intimidating
- Occulus is light.
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Power.
- Solidifying the power of the Empire
- Reify his power with a building
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Interior Dome Spaces
- attention is on the inside,
no longer the outside
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Context
- Hadrian wanted it done, so it was done.
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Hadrian withdrew the armies
from the farthest reaches.
- The Armies were outstretched.
- The man who could bring all the gods
under the ceiling, has nothing to fear.
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Hagia Sophia
- All christian churches
before had square roofs
- Dome Architecture's innovation