San Vitale (Ravenna)
Basilica of Saint Vitalis |
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| Native name | Basilica di San Vitale | |
| Location | Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy | |
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| Established | 547 (Consecrated) | |
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Exteriors[edit]
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Church rear view
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Church view -
Church view -
Cloister -
Ambulatory with stone slabs and baptismal font
Interiors[edit]
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Sarcophagus
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Capital - San Vitale in Ravenna -
Interiors
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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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Choir with intrados of the arch
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Bishop's throne
Cupola[edit]
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Cupola
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Cupola (as seen from the choir)
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Cupola
Mosaics[edit]
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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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detail
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Justinian -
Maximian -
Belisarius -
Giuliano Argentario -
Court of Empress Theodora
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Court of the Empress Theodora
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detail
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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
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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 -
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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Drawings[edit]
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Map
