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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.
Others appear in Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna (549). The column in San Vitale, Ravenna (547) shows above it the dosseret required to carry the arch, the springing of which was much wider than the abacus of the column. On eastern columns the eagle, the lion and the lamb are occasionally carved, but treated conventionally.
Pulvino in the Basilica of San Vitale. A pulvino (or impost block) is an architectural structural element having the shape of an inverted pyramid cushion, which is placed between the column capital and the arch base. [1] [2] [3]
520s – Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna completed. 523 – Songyue Pagoda of China completed. [1] 527 to 536 – Construction of the Church of Saints Sergios and Bacchos in Constantinople. 527 to 548 – Construction of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, begun under the Ostrogoths and finished by the Byzantines.
San Vitale Basilica in Ravenna was one of the prototypes for the Palatine Chapel. The palace borrows several elements of Roman civilization. The Aula Palatina follows a basilical plan. Basilicas in ancient times were public buildings where the city's affairs were discussed.
Basilica di San Vitale: Ravenna: Italy 547 Roman Catholic The best-preserved basilica from the time of Justinian I, filled with outstanding Byzantine mosaics in an excellent state of preservation. Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe: Ravenna: Italy: 549 Originally - Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, later Roman Catholic
It was won by the artist Brunelleschi who, inspired by domes that he had seen on his travels, such as that of San Vitale in Ravenna and the enormous dome of the Roman period which roofed the Pantheon, designed a huge dome which is regarded as the first building of the Renaissance period. Its style, visually however, is ribbed and pointed and ...
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 ...