Anthemios of Tralles
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Anthemios of Tralles (
fl. first half of C6). Greek mathematician and theorist, celebrated for the Church of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople (532–7). He was commissioned by Emperor Justinian (527–65) to design this huge structure, largely because of his reputation as an engineer. The building employed four massive
buttresses and two hemi-domes to contain the outward thrust of the low saucer-dome on
pendentives. In this master-work of
Byzantine architecture, Anthemios was assisted by
Isidorus of Miletus.
Bibliography
Huxley (1959);
Krautheimer (1986);
Mainstone (1988);
Mango (1972, 1986);
R. Mark & and Çakmak (1992)
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AS A STUDENT, SOME 50 YEARS AGO, I WAS SMARTLY ESCORTED TO THE DOOR OF THE ISTANBUL HILTON FOR BEING TOO SCRUFFILY DRESSED
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 7/14/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...capital of Theodosius and Justinian, of Mehmet and Suleyman, has a tradition of architecture that ranges from Isidorus of Miletus and Anthemios ofTralles through Sinon to Modernism. Every generation has been ruthless with the works of predecessors...
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Dictionary of Architecture.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Henrik'. It has lots of potted architectural biographies. Almost everyone I can think of seems to be there, from Isidorus of Miletus, who designed the Hagia Sophia with Anthemios of Tralles (for whom there is a separate entry), to the unfortunate...
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Isidorus of Miletus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Isidorus of Miletus ( b . Miletus; fl . Constantinople...century) architecture, mathematics . Isidorus of Miletus was associated with Anthemius of...traced by the diabetes invented by Isidorus of Miletus, the engineer, our teacher, having...
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Miletus
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Miletus. See Hippodamus and Isidorus .
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Eutocius of Ascalon
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...them was “ edited by Isidorus, the mechanical engineer, our...relationship to Ammonius, for Isidorus of Miletus continued the construction of...an interpolation by a pupil of Isidorus and contain the interesting information...
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Anthemius of Tralles
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Discorus and Alexander, were physicians. Together with Isidorus of Miletus and under the partronage of Justinian, Anthemius...of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Anthemius and Isidorus are said also to have been employed by Justinian in...
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Byzantine architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Constantinople ( c. 532–7), designed by the scientists and mathematicians Anthemios of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus . Various themes that were familiar at the time were synthesized and combined in one design, and it was rather...
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