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.

[edit] Exteriors

Church rear view	Church view	Church view	Church view
Cloister	Ambulatory with stone slabs and baptismal font

Sarcophagus	Capital - San Vitale in Ravenna	Interiors	Interiors
Interior with the two ambulatories	Interior with matroneum (upper ambulatory reserved for women)	Choir with intrados of the arch	Bishop's throne

Cupola

Cupola (as seen from the choir)

Cupola

Abraham entertaining three angels; sacrifice of Isaac	Abraham entertains three angels (detail)	Court of Emperor Justinian with (right) archbishop Maximian and (left) court officials and Praetorian Guards	Court of Emperor Justinian
detail	Justinian	Maximian	Belisarius
Giuliano Argentario	Court of Empress Theodora	Court of the Empress Theodora	detail
detail	Empress Theodora	detail	Choir mosaics
Cupola of the choir : Christ offers the martyr crown to San Vitale, while an angel offers a model of the church to bishop Ecclesius	An angel offers a model of the church to bishop Ecclesius	Cupola of the choir; Lamb of God with four angels
Lamb of God	floor mosaic with a duck	floor mosaic with peacock's fan	Sacrifice of Abel and Melchizedek (lunette above the triforium); Isaiah (in the spandrel)
capitals	Intrados of the choir arch (with apostles)	Intrados (with Paul, Christ and Peter)	Intrados (with apostles and St. Protasius)
Intrados of an arch	Detail	San Vitale