When1: 532
When2: 537
What: architect
Where: Byzantium
works\ Hagia Sophia or Church of Holy Wisdom [532 to 537: Byzantine church, built by Justinian, has central, high, light dome with many windows, resting on four arches from central-square pillars, with spherical triangles between piers and pendentives. Half-domes are on opposite dome sides]
Detail: Byzantine churches can have buttressed main piers with pendentive rim at dome.
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