Byzantine architecture is the building tradition of the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman, Empire, centered on Constantinople and running from the fourth century until the empire's fall in 1453. It is known above all for its great domes carried on pendentives, letting a circular dome rise over a square plan, and for the gold mosaics and marble revetment that cover its interiors. The Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, combining a longitudinal basilica plan with a centralized domed one, is its most celebrated example.
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Origin RegionEastern Mediterranean, centered on Constantinople 1 Byzantine Architecture
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Why this is disputed. Aksumite and later Ethiopian Orthodox church architecture shows Byzantine and eastern Christian influence following fourth century Christianization; direct transmission versus parallel development is debated.
Early Islamic building, especially under the Umayyads, drew on Byzantine construction methods and decorative traditions inherited from the territories it succeeded.
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Ottoman imperial mosque design under Sinan directly responds to and adapts the domed plan of Hagia Sophia.
Russian church architecture, onion domes and the cross-in-square plan, derives from Byzantine tradition via the Kievan Rus conversion to Orthodoxy.
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Byzantine building practice grew directly out of late Roman construction, keeping Roman concrete and brick technique while developing the dome-on-pendentive system further.
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The architecture of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire is usually dated from AD 330, when Constantine the Great established a new Roman capital in Byzantium, which became Constantinople, until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.
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- Associated With: Pendentive
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It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture".
Basilica of San Vitale (Wikidata)
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architectural style: Byzantine architecture
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