Wonderful Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.


Here are a few photos of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.







Federico Zeri, the Italian art historian, wrote several times that the Basilica of San Marco in Venice in his opinion is the copy of St. Sophia in Istanbul.

In the Middles Ages the meaning of "copying" a building was to copy and replicate its map to the ground, not necessarily its walls and roofs. Zeri wrote that the width, length and other measures of the San Marco Basilica in Venice are the same "at the centimetre" as those of St. Sophia in Constantinople, now Istanbul.

Venice was for centuries the Byzantium (then Constantinople, then Istanbul) of the West. Although located in Catholic Italy it thrived with commerce with the East and was culturally, economically and also artistically linked and with Byzantium and with Orthodox Europe and Asia.











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