Hagia Sophia

Name of structure: Hagia Sophia
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Ukraine
Region within country or main area:
City or area within region: Kiev
Date of structure: Begun 1037, inaugurated 1046
Century of structure 1: 11 AD
Century of structure 2: 11 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Apse; triumphal arch; dome; drum; arches.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Apse conch: Virgin.
Apse wall: Christ giving Eucharist to 12 apostles, saints, flora.
Triumphal arch: Christ, Evangelist.
Dome: Christ, archangels.
Arches around apse and dome and supports around dome: saints, Virgin, archangel.


 
Date of mosaic: 11th and 12thC
Century of mosaic 1: 11 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 12 AD
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? No
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns: 19C, after 1917-1934 (made into a museum).
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:


Vysotskii, S., Svetskie freski Sofiiskogo sobora v Kieve (Kiev, 1989).


Vysotskii, S., Srednevekovye nadpisi Sofii Kievskoi: Po materialam graffiti XI–XVII vv. (Kiev, 1976).


Logvin, G., Sofiia Kievskaia: Gosudarstvennyi arkhitekturno-istoricheskii zapovednik (Kiev, 1971).


Tots’ka, I. (ed)., Mosaics and Frescoes of St. Sophia's Cathedral of Kiev (Kiev, 1971).


Levitskaia, V. I., 'Materialy issledovaniia palitry mozaik Sofii Kievskoi', Vizantiiskii Vremennik (1963), 105-57.

Powstenko, O., The Cathedral of St. Sophia in Kiev (New York, 1954).
URLs:

Drawing of the decoration scheme: http://www.icon-art.info/location.php?lng=en&loc_id=148&mode=schemas
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