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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.
The crenelated walls and asymmetric towers are surrounded by an arcaded town. Adjacent to the castle are gardens and a courtyard. The optical chamber (camera ottica) has an optical system that projects to an inside wall a view of the town through mirrors and a prism. Rocca Sanvitale is now partly a museum and partly offices and conference hall ...
The imperial basilica of San Vitale al Quirinale, built under the pontificate of Pope Siricius after 386 and consecrated and richly decorated by Pope Innocent in 402 (Luigi Hutter and Vincenzo Golzino) is the first public Christian basilica with a baptistery (still not found) not founded on pre-existing pagan temples, mentioned in the Liber ...
Vitalis is honoured as the principal patron saint of the city of Ravenna. [4]The feast day of Saint Vitalis is 28 April. [5] Churches are dedicated in honor of Saint Vitalis at Assisi, and Rome, in Italy and at Jadera (now Zadar) in Dalmatia (now Croatia), but by far the most famous church bearing his name is the octagonal Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, a masterpiece of Byzantine art ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Stuart Fairchild had an inside-the-park homer that provided a key insurance run late to help left-hander Andrew Abbott win for the first time in almost a month ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered reciprocal tariffs Thursday on countries found to treat US imports unfairly — with the European Union, India and Japan among the targets. “This should ...
The last game Vitale called was the international broadcast of the 2023 men's national championship game between San Diego State and UConn. Vitale has been at ESPN almost since the beginning and ...