Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 248
hadbeen for long centuries enjoyed by no Roman ruler. But it wasby his buildings, no less than by his conquests that the greatEmperor sought to immortalize his fame. The historian Pro-copius has left us an entire work devoted to an account of theworks of architecture erected by Justinian; — a work… … HAGIA SOPHIA fairly appalling in its length; and yet the author insists manytimes that his enumeration is far from complete. It was to this insatiate building activity of the Emperor thatByzantine architecture owed its extraordinary development; itwas to the same inexhaustible zeal that it owed its…
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