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Anthemius of Tralles

ANTEMIO DI TRALLE

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Also known as: Anthemios of Tralles; French: Anthémius de Tralles

ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES. - Byzantine architect, who together with Isidore of Miletus erected in 532 the church of St. Sophia in Constantinople, realizing the greatest example of a dome resting on triangular pendentives of spherical section and raised above the arches connecting the four supporting piers; this system of roofing constitutes one of the principal characteristics of Byzantine architecture (v. BYZANTIUM, ART).

The same architects created in 536 a simpler model, the basilica of the Apostles, later destroyed by the Turks, on a Greek-cross plan, with a central dome on isolated piers and lesser domes at the ends of the four arms, which served as the prototype for the basilica of St. Mark in Venice.

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BIBL.: A. Muñoz, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, I, pp. 549-51; S. Bettini, L'architettura bizantina, Florence 1937.

Saverio Pisani

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 1425–1426.

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Pisani, Saverio. “Antemio di Tralle.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1425–1426. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/antemio-di-tralle.

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Pisani, Saverio. “Antemio di Tralle.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1425–1426. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/antemio-di-tralle.

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@incollection{ec1_antemio_di_tralle,
  author    = {Pisani, Saverio},
  title     = {Antemio di Tralle},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {1425--1426},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/antemio-di-tralle}
}

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