The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building

Name: The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building
Author: W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby

by W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby, Harold Swainson

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Project Gutenberg

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Benjamin Fluehr, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2021-09-14

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Public domain in the USA.

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Ayasofya Müzesi

About the authors

W. R. (William Richard) Lethaby

1857–1931

Best known as an English architect, designer, and influential teacher, he helped carry Arts and Crafts ideas into the early modern era. His books and lectures made medieval building, craft, and design history feel vivid and relevant to a new generation.

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Harold Swainson

Best known as the co-author of a classic 1894 study of Hagia Sophia, this little-known writer helped bring Byzantine architecture to a wider English-speaking audience. His work combines careful historical reading with a real sense of wonder for one of the world's great buildings.

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