The Hagia Sophia. Part 4 - The Mosaics

The Hagia Sophia is the most important Byzantine building and so it will take 5 videos to do it justice. This is part 4 where we look at the Byzantine mosaics which light up the building.

This video is part of a series - 'The History of Byzantium goes to Istanbul.' In 2018 the listeners of the podcast funded a Kickstarter to send me to Istanbul. I documented many of the surviving Byzantine sites and have made videos about them.

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[Eduardo-uoqs]

Great vídeo and research about Hagia Sophia museum.
The mosaic Jesus pantokrator, mother Mary and John the Baptist is a master piece.
Congratulations
Rio

[Starbat]

This is a wonderful series. Thank you.

[weilandiv]

Thank you again. This entire Byz project means so much to me. Like I can reach out and touch the History, I am so happy.

[ironduke]

Nice work Robin! I thoroughly enjoy the series.

[ezzovonachalm]

Λεων ο σοφος has "strugled " with the church for his third and fourth marriages, not for the sake of concupiscence, but because out of the two firsth marriages he had only one surviving daughter Anna born to Ζωη Τσαουτσινα but no male heir.Only his fourth marriage produced not only his successor Κωνσταντινος VII but the survival of the Amorid dynasty until 1056 ! Leon was a pious emperor who composed liturgical musical works and who sustained the church his life long.

[kidmohair]

the western art critics of the 19 and 20th centuries regarded
these mosaics and their contemporary gothic art as primitive...

[abdulhakimsaid]

İrenke/Piroska neni, ö a valodi Kincs az egesz Ayasofya-bol (egy kicsit magyar törtenelem İsztambulba)!!!

[oscarsalesgirl]

The giant Arabic billboards are so insulting. Completely ruin the size and scale of the building.