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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...
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    Christian imperial basilica of the Saints Martyrs Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio and Protasio known more commonly as the basilica of San Vitale and Compagni Martiri...
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    Ravenna (redirect from History of Ravenna)
    Archiepiscopal Chapel (c. 500) Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo (c. 500) Mausoleum of Theodoric (520) Basilica of San Vitale (548) Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in...
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    The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates...
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  • Sergios and Bacchos in Constantinople. 527 to 548 – Construction of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, begun under the Ostrogoths and finished by the Byzantines...
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    Apollinaris. The Basilica is thus contemporary with the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna. The relics of Saint Apollinaris are today in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare...
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  • Congregation of Savigny Basilica of San Vitale (Rome) Basilica of San Vitale (Ravenna), a church in Ravenna, Italy San Vitale (Assisi) San Vidal, Venice...
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    Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Denis, Santa Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of San Vitale, St Mark's Basilica, Westminster Abbey, Saint Basil's...
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    Basilica of San Vitale, the Archiepiscopal Chapel, the Arian Baptistry, the Neonian Baptistry, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Basilica Sant’Apollinare...
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    was bishop of Ravenna from AD 521 to 532. He is best known as the founder of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. Ecclesius was one of the bishops...
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    Theodora. Theodora and Justinian are represented in mosaics in the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna, Italy, which were completed a year before her death after...
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  • the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising...
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    mosaics of the Arian Baptistry, Baptistry of Neon, Archbishop's Chapel, and the earlier phase mosaics in the Basilica of San Vitale and Basilica of Sant'Apollinare...
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    Byzantine architecture (category Culture of the Byzantine Empire)
    nonclassical sensibility has taken over the design. The columns at Basilica of San Vitale show wavy and delicate floral patterns similar to decorations found...
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    sepulchre dug in the Catacombs of Rome. Pancras' head was placed in the reliquary that still exists today in the Basilica of Saint Pancras. Devotion to Pancras...
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    of supplies and reinforcements from Constantinople). The mosaic panels of Justinian I and Theodora I with attendants, in the Basilica of San Vitale (Ravenna)...
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    the Byzantine mosaics in the Church of San Vitale. For Klimt, the flatness of the mosaics and their lack of perspective and depth only enhanced their golden...
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    Carolingian-Romanesque Palatine Chapel, which was modeled after the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna and is notably small in comparison to the later additions...
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    (12th–16th c.) of architecture. Ancient examples of the flying buttress can be found on the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna and on the Rotunda of Galerius...
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    Capital (architecture) (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    century Basilica of San Vitale (Ravenna, Italy) Basket capital in the atrium of the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica, Poreč Capital with protomes of pegasi...
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    the Basilica of San Vitale from Ravenna (Italy) and Hagia Sophia from Istanbul (Turkey). Epiphany of Dionysus; 2nd century AD; from the Villa of Dionysus;...
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    Vitalis of Milan (Italian: San Vitale) was an early Christian martyr and saint. His legend relates that Vitalis was a wealthy citizen of Milan, perhaps...
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  • fend off the army of Slavs and Avars then besieging Adrianople (586). The Byzantines granted him burial in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, where...
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    Lenz, Klimt visited the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna where he studied the early-Christian Byzantine gold ground mosaics of Justinian I and his wife...
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    Tara Brooch (category Collection of the National Museum of Ireland)
    The tradition continued into the Byzantine empire; mosaics in the Basilica of San Vitale show the emperor Justinian (b. 482) wearing a brooch on an imperial...
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  • structure to the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, which was built in 540. Julian moved to Antioch in 362, soon after becoming the sole ruler of the eastern...
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    city of Hierapolis. The relics of Philip the Apostle are currently found in the crypt of Basilica Santi Apostoli, Rome, as well as the Church of St. Philip...
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    outside-the-walls (San Paolo fuori le Mura), as recorded in an inscription there. A basilica in Ravenna dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist (San Giovanni Evangelista)...
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    (2010). Italy, Malta, and San Marino. Marshall Cavendish. p. 753. WORLD HERITAGE LIST Ravenna No 788 Weitzmann, Kurt, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique...
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    Placidia – Roman mausoleum – 5th century, Ravenna Basilica of San Vitale – Minor basilica in Ravenna, Italy – 6th century, Ravenna Valencia Cathedral –...
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