Anthemius of Tralles was a Byzantine Greek mathematician and architect from Tralles who, with Isidore of Miletus, designed the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople for the Emperor Justinian I, built between 532 and 537 CE and recognized even at the time as a major work of architecture.
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Birth YearThe source gives only an approximate birth year, circa 474, and a wide death range (between 533 and 558); death-year is left unwritten as too imprecise for a single-year fact. NationalityByzantine Greek, from Tralles 2 Active From YearThe construction years of the Hagia Sophia, his best-attested work, per this entity's own existing description. Active To YearThe construction years of the Hagia Sophia, his best-attested work, per this entity's own existing description. Disputed
Death YearSources bound his death only between 533 and 558 CE; conventionally cited as circa 534. Connections
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Co-designed, with Isidore of Miletus (not separately minted, out of this wave's scope), the Hagia Sophia, a defining monument of Byzantine architecture.
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With Isidore of Miletus, he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I.
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With Isidore of Miletus, he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I.
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Anthemius of Tralles ... was a Byzantine Greek from Tralles who worked as a geometer and architect in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. With Isidore of Miletus, he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I.
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he designed the Hagia Sophia for Justinian I
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