Chora Church

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Architecture · c. 1315–1321 · Constantinople (Istanbul) · Europe

Mosaics and frescoes of the Palaiologan Renaissance, full of movement — Byzantium's last flowering

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Style: Byzantine art — Gold mosaics and a heaven-like dome: the church as paradise, the icon as a window to eternity
Century: 14th century

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