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Domes that seem to float on light. Mosaics of gold tesserae set at angles to catch the sun. Byzantine architecture took the engineering of Rome and the spirituality of the Christian East and produced spaces that feel less built than summoned — Hagia Sophia is the masterpiece, but it has cousins from Ravenna to Moscow.

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