#byzantine architecture

[wordsmithic]

Byzantine column from Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)

[placesandpalaces]

The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica, is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. The cistern, located 150 metres (490 ft) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Today it is kept with little water, for public access inside the space.

[permament-witzelsucht]

Rudolf von Alt - View of the Ducal Palace in Venice, 1874 (Original Title: Blick auf den Dogenpalast in Venedig)

[wandererinwonder]

Byzantine San Vitale’s Basilica, Ravenna (VIth century) with its pre-iconoclasty mosaics Taken: July 16th, 2020 (iPhone 8)

[sulphurousvisions]

Athens Greece

Kodak Gold 200

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: a 1st BCE house under the present day Basilica of San Clemente, Rome.

[leroibobo]

haghpat monastery in haghpat, armenia. the initial building was completed in 991 by medieval armenian king smbat II, and other structures were added later until the 13th century. its location was deliberately chosen to both be inconspicuous and overlook the nearby debed river.

this monastery was one of the locations featured in the 1969 film the color of pomegranates. the film follows the life of 18th century armenian poet sayat-nova, who at one point served in haghpat as a monk. he was also murdered there in 1795.

[calabria-mediterranea]

Bivongi, Calabria, Italy

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[scavengedluxury]

St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, 1910. From the Budapest municipal photography company archive.

[keepingitneutral]

Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, Istanbul, Türkiye,

In Turkish, “çinili” translates to “tiled bath house.”

Mrs Koza Gureli Yazgan acquired an abandoned hamam in Istanbul’s historic yet overlooked Zeyrek district in 2010.

While freshening the place up, she kept unearthing priceless artifacts from Ottoman, Byzantine, and Roman times, soon discovering fragments of more than 3,000 vivid turquoise-blue ceramic tiles. More than 10,000 such tiles once adorned the building’s interior until a Parisian dealer sold the tiles to museums and private collectors around Europe as the hamam sat dormant.

After more than 13 years of conservation, which involved restoring the tiles and wall paintings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries, Mrs Gureli Yazgan is gearing up to reopen Çinili as a contemporary art venue on September 30.

A museum dedicated to Byzantine cisterns will occupy the lower levels, which feature newly uncovered wall carvings of boats suspected to have been made by slaves. When the baths aren’t offering full-service spa services, they’ll host a rotating art program that glimmers under the domed roof’s array of crescent-shaped skylights.

[cometnoodle]

thought itd be fun to put edelgard in (vaguely) historical outfits from 1180s-ish, byzantine-ish and the holy roman emperors' coronation regalia lol

[wonderjourneys]

Charlemagne’s throne in the Byzantine style Cathedral in Aachen, Germany.

Charlemagne was called the first Holy Roman Emperor of the HRE, when uniting huge territories in Europe.

Full Aachen & Charlemagne video

The Cathedral was built in the style of the Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantium. This is after the fall of Rome. In the Middle Ages, and still centuries before the renaissance started in Italy.

The Aachen Dom / Cathedral of Aachen is a must see.

The detailed and splendid mosaics in the Cathedral are from after Charlemagne’s days.

[rosechata]

byzantine marble mosaic, bursa, turkey

caspar tromp

[wandererinwonder]

Panagia Chalkeon, XI th century Byzantine church, Thessaloniki

[sulphurousvisions]

Ancient Agora Athens Greece

Kodak Gold 200

[brother-emperors]

sforzesco ➡ brother-emperors

briefly, entering my brother-emperors url era! we will be returning to sforzesco in the future because I only care about three roman emperors, but the sforzas are forever