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2. Basilica of San Vitale - Wikipedia

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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.

3. National Museum of Ravenna - Wikipedia

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   It is located in the Benedictine monastery of San Vitale on via San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. The collection, initially assembled through the efforts of local erudite Camaldolese monks, was established as a museum in 1885, and moved to this site by the early 20th century.

4. Jane and Mary Parminter - Wikipedia

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   Inspired by the chapel of San Vitale in Ravenna, which they had visited on their tour, Jane and Mary had the sixteen-sided A la Ronde built just outside Exmouth in Devon. Family lore suggests Jane designed the building itself but recent research suggests a Mr Lowder may have created the plans based on her ideas. [1] [9] [10]

5. Late Antique and medieval mosaics in Italy - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. Byzantine architecture - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Vitalis of Milan - Wikipedia

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   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 ...