EPISODE · Sep 8, 2010
“Hagia Sophia: An Alternative Biblical Architecture of Light”
from Yale University: Humanities · host Whitney Humanities Center
In his 2010 Franke Lecture, Robert Nelson introduces Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia and discusses how Biblically resonant uses of light and darkness contribute to making the cathedral one of the great monuments of world architecture.
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Robert Nelson studies and teaches medieval art, mainly in the Eastern Mediterranean, and the history and methods of art history. His book, Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950 (2004), asks how the cathedral of Constantinople, once ignored or despised, came to be regarded as one of the great monuments of world architecture. In his 2010 Franke Lecture, Robert Nelson introduces Hagia Sophia and discusses how Biblically resonant uses of light and darkness contribute to its meaning and majesty.
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