A Study About Hagia Sophia Art Essay

Basilicas were used for commerce, as public meeting places and for courts of law.  The Hagia Sophia was built as the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian’s personal imperial church.  It was built in the hopes of competing  with the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.  The Forum was built from a vast stoa-lined piazza measuring 660 by 390 feet (200x120m) with exedrae on…

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Exploring art in urban environment

Historical Context In the late eighteenth century, the establishment of the museum revolutionised the notion that art had to be exclusive. Paintings and sculptures, objects previously housed in private collections and viewed by a typically bourgeois audience, were propelled into the wider public arena. Although originating as national institutions, as popularity for this new cultural…

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