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The Basilica of San Vitale is a late antique church in Ravenna, Italy. The sixth-century church is an important surviving example of early Byzantine art and architecture, and its mosaics in particular are some of the most-studied works in Byzantine art. It is one of eight structures in Ravenna inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 548. Italy has the richest concentration of Late Antique and medieval mosaics in the world. Although the art style is especially associated with Byzantine art and many Italian mosaics were probably made by imported Greek-speaking artists and craftsmen, there are surprisingly few significant mosaics remaining in the core Byzantine territories.
Justinian I, as depicted in mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. In 330 AD, the emperor Constantine moved the empire's capital from Rome to Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul), renaming it Constantinople after himself. Historians generally use this date for the beginning of the Byzantine Empire and divide Byzantine art into three ...
Interior of the Basilica of San Vitale from Ravenna (Italy), decorated with elaborate and glamorous mosaics Pammakaristos Church, also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos (Greek: Θεοτόκος ἡ Παμμακάριστος, "All-Blessed Mother of God"), is one of the most famous Greek Orthodox Byzantine churches in Istanbul Church of Christ Pantocrator (13th-14th century ...
He is shown, and named in a large titulus, in the famous mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale of Justinian surrounded by his ministers and bodyguards (matched by a panel for the Empress). His throne can be dated to about 545–553, and is believed to have been carved in Constantinople, and shipped to Ravenna.
Exmore, Va. used to be a ghost town-or close to it. Set on Virginia's Eastern Shore, a landscape of farming land that stretches for acres surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean ...
San Apollinare Nuovo is in plan similar to Santa Maria Maggiore, but the details of the carvings are no longer in the classical Roman style. The capitals are like fat lacy stone cushions. Many of the mosaics are intact. [44] In the same town stands the uniquely structured, centrally planned, and domed church of San Vitale, of the same date. Its ...
San Vitale; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Théodora (impératrice, épouse de Justinien Ier) Basilique Saint-Vital de Ravenne; Trois Chapitres; Anastasie la Patricienne; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org San Vitale-templom; Usage on it.wikipedia.org Teodora (moglie di Giustiniano) Basilica di San Vitale (Ravenna) Il bacio (Klimt) Usage on ms.wikipedia.org