NOTE: Since the conversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque, several of the artworks described here are no longer visible, but they’re still there. Behind… Read More »• A DATE WITH AN ANGEL: Worlds Collide in Hagia Sophia
PRECEDENT Around 1830, beloved literary giant Victor Hugo learned that the old Gothic pile in the middle of Paris was to be pulled down. A… Read More »• ROCKING THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION: Drawing on The Hasankeyf Train
5th century AD: Furious clamor as police descend on Constantinople’s Chalkoprateia, the Bronze District, where Jewish artisans live, creating and selling bronze items. Screaming in… Read More »• GHOST CHURCH: Drawing Theotokos in Chalkoprateia