English: San Vitale is a church in Ravenna.
Italiano: San Vitale è una chiesa di Ravenna.
Français : Saint-Vital est une église de Ravenne.
Exteriors[edit]
Ambulatory with stone slabs and baptismal font
Interiors[edit]
Choir with intrados of the arch
Capital - San Vitale in Ravenna
Interior with the two ambulatories
Interior with matroneum (upper ambulatory reserved for women)
Cupola (as seen from the choir)
Mosaics[edit]
At the adjunct National Museum - mosaic closeup
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
Court of Empress Theodora
Court of the Empress Theodora
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
floor mosaic with peacock's fan
Sacrifice of Abel and Melchizedek (lunette above the triforium); Isaiah (in the spandrel)
Intrados of the choir arch (with apostles)
Intrados (with Paul, Christ and Peter)
Intrados (with apostles and St. Protasius)
Sacrifices of Abel and Melchizedek
Emperor Justinian and his suite
Empress Theodora and his entourage
Drawings[edit]