Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 93
Vitale and St. Sergius. The Constantine basilica whichstood upon the site had been burned in the year 532, on the occa-sion of an uprising of the populace, and Justinian took advantageof this to commemorate his victory by a magnificent rebuilding.It was probably the destruction of the earlier… … 0 5 10 :oMtr. Fig. 32.—Plan of the Church of St. Ser ST. SOPHIA. 57 mere chance that both the architects to whom the task was in-trusted were Asiatics by birth—Isidoros of Miletos and Anthemiosof Tralles. In five years after the fire the new church was readyfor consecration. Soon after this it was…
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