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Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Hagia Sophia, 523–37 CE, Constantinople
Mosaics of Emperor Justinian and His Attendants
Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, San Vitale, c. 547 C
Page from the Chludov Psalter, ninth century CE
Christ Pantokrator, Central Dome, Church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, c. 1080–1100 CE
Anastasis, Funerary Chapel, Church of the Monastery of Christ in Chora, Istanbul, Turkey, c. 1315–21 CE
pendentive
a curved triangle of vaulting formed by the intersection of a dome with its supporting arches; constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room
Iconoclasm
literally translates as “image breaking”; a period of the destruction of religious imagery for fear of idolatry
Transfiguration of Christ, Church of Virgin, Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, c. 548–65
