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Light Streaming Through Hagia Sophia Dome

A watercolor painting of the interior of the Hagia Sophia, featuring light streaming through the dome's windows in white shafts, with large circular calligraphy medallions hanging on the walls and small figures standing in the shadowed nave.

Hagia Sophia's interior in the 540s as a watercolour, light pouring through the ring of windows at the dome's base in shafts left as bare white, wet-on-wet washes bleeding across the vaults, tiny figures in the cool shadow below, palette of gold, warm grey and slate blue, filling the frame flat and square-on, edge to edge. See more

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