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York Building: So sumptuous a building could hardly have been completed without the close backing of the emperor; it is estimated to have cost $75,000,000. The most obvious later additions are the four minarets constructed after the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and the conversion of the building into a mosque. The Turks also covered the figure mosaics and, in 1847-1849, added the brownish red banding of the exterior in stucco. In the present century the Turkish government permitted the mosaics to be uncovered, and on Feb. 1, 1935 converted the famous building from a mosque into a museum.
Consult Lethaby, William R., and Swainson, Harold, The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople; a Study of Byzantine Building (London 1894) ; Swift, Emerson H., Hagia Sophia (New york building 1940).
Life is given to the representation by landscapes fitted to the purpose, or by other carefully considered surroundings. In connection with these there should be mentioned also the models in plaster, the preparation of which is a serious art in Paris and in other great centres of artistic study. These models, when concerned with a non-existent building, may be a complete rendering of that building, as in ihe case of the model of the Parthenon and that that of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New york building.
During and after his work on Trinity Church, commissions came thick and fast. In 1876 he was commissioned, with others, to complete the interior and grounds of the New york building State capitol. Many commercial and other secular buildings followed, including Sever and Austin halls, Harvard University; the courthouse and jail at Pittsburgh, Pa.; the Cincinnati, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce Building (gutted by fire in 1918) ; and the Marshall Field Building in Chicago, 111. |
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