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8. Walking on Water: Cosmic Floors in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Fabio Barry
Description: Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the...
Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
~When Hagia Sophia was completed and dedicated with great fanfare shortly after Christmas 537, Emperor Justinian could rightly say that he had outdone Solomon. Such was the splendor of the completed vessel that God Almighty might be...
Author
Fabio Barry
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2020 by Fabio Barry
Related print edition pages: pp.191-207
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00283.9
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22091
Chapter subject tags:Polychromy (Architecture)Marble in architectureFloors, MarbleMosaic floorsArchitecture, AncientArchitecture, Medieval

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8. Walking on Water: Cosmic Floors in Antiquity and the Middle Ages