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Sophia Collier is an American investor, artist, and entrepreneur. She co-founded Soho Natural Soda in 1977, later selling the company to Seagram Beverage Company. Collier also founded Citizens Advisers Inc., a mutual fund management company focused on socially responsible investing, before transitioning to large-scale art projects inspired by natural water surfaces.
Within the Christian worldview, God raises the dead at the end of time, hence the significance of the Anastasis and Last Judgement scenes painted prominently on the ceiling. The image of the Anastasis is particularly renowned, appearing in many art history survey books as a key examplar of late Byzantine art.
The dome and semi-domes of the Hagia Sophia, in particular, were replicated and refined. A "universal mosque design" based upon this development spread throughout the world. [250] The first Ottoman mosque to use a dome and semi-dome nave vaulting scheme like that of Hagia Sophia was the mosque of Beyazit II.
'Holy Sophia, Divine Wisdom') is a conventional topos of iconography, attested since at least the late 14th century. The "Novgorod type" is named for the icon of Holy Wisdom in Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod (16th century), but represented by the older icon in the Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow , dated to the early 15th century.
Byzantine art comprises the body of artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, [1] as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of western Rome and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, [2] the start date of the Byzantine period is rather clearer in art history than in political history, if still ...
Sophia Theresa "Sophie" Pemberton (13 February 1869 - 31 October 1959) was a Canadian painter [1] who was British Columbia's first professional woman artist. [2] Despite the social limitations placed on female artists at the time, she made a noteworthy contribution to Canadian art and, in 1899, was the first woman to win the Prix Julian from the Académie Julian for portraiture. [3]
A young Russian woman enjoying the beach has died after she was swept away by a large wave in Thailand, multiple news outlets report. Kamilla Beliatskaya, 24, was in Koh Samui, Thailand, on Friday ...
The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888. The university's edifice was constructed between 1924 and 1934 with the financial support of the brothers Evlogi Georgiev and Hristo Georgiev, whose sculptures are now featured on its façade, and ...