San Vitale (Ravenna)

English: San Vitale is a church in Ravenna.

Italiano: San Vitale è una chiesa di Ravenna.

Français : Saint-Vital est une église de Ravenne.

 See also category: San Vitale (Ravenna).

Exteriors

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  Church rear view
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  Church rear view
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  Entrance
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  Church rear view
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  Church view

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  Church view

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  Cloister

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  Ambulatory with stone slabs and baptismal font

Interiors

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  Interiors
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  Interiors
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  Choir with intrados of the arch
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  Sarcophagus
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  Capital - San Vitale in Ravenna

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  Interiors
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  Interior with the two ambulatories
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  Interior with matroneum (upper ambulatory reserved for women)
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  Bishop's throne

Cupola

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  Cupola
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  Cupola (as seen from the choir)
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  Cupola

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  Interiors

Mosaics

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  At the adjunct National Museum - mosaic closeup
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  Abraham entertaining three angels; sacrifice of Isaac
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  Abraham entertains three angels (detail)
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  Court of Emperor Justinian with (right) archbishop Maximian and (left) court officials and Praetorian Guards
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  Court of Emperor Justinian
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  Justinian

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  Maximian

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  Belisarius

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  Giuliano Argentario

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  Court of Empress Theodora
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  Court of the Empress Theodora
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  Empress Theodora

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  Choir mosaics

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  Cupola of the choir : Christ offers the martyr crown to San Vitale, while an angel offers a model of the church to bishop Ecclesius
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  An angel offers a model of the church to bishop Ecclesius
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  Cupola of the choir; Lamb of God with four angels
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  Lamb of God

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  floor mosaic with a duck
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  floor mosaic with peacock's fan
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  Sacrifice of Abel and Melchizedek (lunette above the triforium); Isaiah (in the spandrel)
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  capitals
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  Intrados of the choir arch (with apostles)
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  Intrados (with Paul, Christ and Peter)
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  Intrados (with apostles and St. Protasius)
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  Intrados of an arch
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  Detail
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  San Vitale
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  Sacrifice of Abraham
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  Sacrifices of Abel and Melchizedek
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  Emperor Justinian and his suite
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  Empress Theodora and his entourage
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  Empress Theodora, detail

Drawings

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  Map