Church and State tried to collaborate and overcome their conflicting interests during the Early Byzantine period: mosaic from the outer narthex of Hagia
Sophia, Constantinople, circa 1000 AD, showing Constantine the Great and Justinian offering the Virgin Mary a model of a
city and a church respectively.
Ankara, Ministry of Culture General Directorate of Monuments and Museums.
Chatzidakis, N., Helleniki Tehni: Byzantina Psifidota, Ekdotike Athenon S.A.,
Athens 1994, p. 59, ill. 34.
©Ministry of Culture General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, Ankara
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