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Basilican and cross-in-square plan churches in the style which developed in the Eastern Roman Empire (330-1453) in which Classical precepts were no longer strictly observed and new influences from the East were integrated.


1. Church of St. Theodore at Mistra, Greece - Photograph of the 11th-century Byzantine church from Fordham University, New York.
2. Computer Model of the Hagia Sophia - Project by Princeton University in 1996. Technical details of producing the model, some photographs.
3. Hagia Sophia - Great Buildings Online provide photographs, 3D model, choice quotations and bibliography of the Byzantine masterpiece designed by Isidoros and Anthemios at Istanbul, Turkey, 532-7.
4. Ravenna Mosaics and Monuments - MW&V sell this CD-Rom guide to the famous mosaics of Ravenna in four languages. Sample screen shots on-line.
5. San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy - This octagonal church, built 526-47, is among the finest and least altered of all Byzantine buildings. Great Buildings Online provides a description and bibliography.

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