The Corpus of Civil Law & Justinian Encourages The Arts Emperor Justinian encouraged arts, music, and drama He was a great masterful builder Since he was a great architecture builder, he had an authority and commanded to build new roads, bridges, aqueducts, batch and a variety of other public buildings. One of the most famous building project that had been completed was the Church Hagia Sophia and it still stands perfect today even tough it has passed 2000 years!! Now it is used for the religion Islam It is one of the largest churches in the world. Continued on the next page AAAAnother example is the mosaic, which is a painting on walls, of a Jesus and the cross in the cathedral of San Apollinaire in Italy. The Byzantine arts theme was mainly dominated by religion Art about Christianity In churches, cathedrals, and burial chambers, rich and beautiful mosaics were painted that illustrated and represented stories from the bible which is a religious book for Christianities. In the early periods of the Byzantine empire, the architects learned how to build churches by placing round dome over a square foundation Of all the laws, Emperor Justinian was the greatest complier Justinian had 10 books that contained laws which in their were constitutions that had been used years when the reign of the Emperor Hadrian was in the era. TTTThe laws were recorded on books, scrolls, and tablets TTTThe laws were kind of similar to the laws from the Roman Empire TTTThe laws that were complicated were made easy