...scale and less durable foundations.109 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints: most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully...

...scale and less durable foundations. In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints: most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully...

...monument to his fame. VOL. II. H In Constantinople, and the adjoining suburbs, Justinian dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the Saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold, grid their situations were chosen in spacious...

...and the precious metals in their purity imparted splendour to the scene. Before the building was four feet out of the ground its cost had amounted to a sum equivalent to 200,000/. sterling, and the total cost of it when finished may, at the lowest computation, be reckoned as exceeding one...

...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...were numerously distributed throughout the empire. * This dome is constructed of pumice-stone and very light bricks from the isle of Rhodes. To give a...

...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...were numerously distributed throughout the empire. To give a connected description of the architecture between the sixth and eighth centuries, would he...

...scale and less durable foundations.108 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully...

...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...twenty-five churches to the , honour of Christ, the Virgin, am the Saints ; he also built a church to St. John at Cphcsus, and another to the Virgin at Jerusalem:...

...scale, and with less durable foundations. In Constantinople alone and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold, and their various situations were skilfully...

...scale and less durable foundations. 106 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints : most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully...