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Exterior view of St. Vitale. 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.
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.
The early Christian imperial basilica of the Saints Martyrs Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio and Protasio known more commonly as the basilica of San Vitale and Compagni Martiri in Fovea (Roman Parish) or more simply as San Vitale al Quirinale. It is the oldest Catholic place of worship in the historic center of Rome, located in via Nazionale.
Those in the Cathedral of Saint Mark, Venice (1071) specially attracted John Ruskin's fancy. 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 ...
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 ...
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
Triumphal arch mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale Garden of Eden mosaic in mausoleum of Galla Placidia (5th century CE) Arian Baptistry ceiling mosaic 6th-century mosaic in Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, portrays Jesus long-haired and bearded, dressed in Byzantine style. The Arian Baptistery
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.