Ravenna - Famous for its ancient Mosaics, the last Capital of the Roman Empire, the city where Dante was buried

6th c.Sant'Apollinare in Classe.Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Bizantine period. 549 CE.-date of consecration by Bishop Maximian. Triumphal arch mosaics. VI secolo,

6th.Sant'Apollinare in Classe.Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Bizantine period.The brick structure was erected at the beginning of 6th cent.by order of Bishop Ursicinus,using money from the Greek banker Iulianus Argentarius,was consecrated on May 9,549 by Bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris,first bishop of Ravenna and Classe. The Basilica is thus contemporary with the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna.

6th.Sant'Apollinare in Classe.Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Bizantine period. The brick structure was erected at the beginning of 6th cent.by order of Bishop Ursicinus,using money from the Greek banker Iulianus Argentarius,was consecrated on May 9, 549 by Bishop Maximian and dedicated to Saint Apollinaris,first bishop of Ravenna and Classe. The Basilica is thus contemporary with the Basilica of San Vitale of Ravenna.

Basilica of St'Apollinare Nuovo Ravenna The Palace of Theodoric.Ravenna italian-byzantine work,compl.within 526 by the "Master of St'Apollinare".After the defeat of Theodoric,the wall mosaics in the Palace and Cathedral were redone by the Byzantines to remove Gothic features.The figures in this mosaic were replaced by curtains,(detail), presumably due to lack of time.Several remnants of the earlier work are visible,such as a portion of an arm on the 3rd pillar

527-548.Basilica di San Vitale a Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna,Italy. Bizantine period.actual building probably began after Justinian had reconquered Ravenna and it became the western capital of the Byzantine empire.The church was dedicated by Archbishop Maximianus in 547 to the patron saint of Ravenna, St.Vitale.

Baptistery of Bishop Neon (ca 460).Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. (Battistero Neoniano) The most ancient monument remaining in the city,it was partly erected on the site of a Roman bath. It is also called the Orthodox Baptistery to distinguish it from the Arian Baptistery constructed on behest of Ostrogothic King Theodoric some 50 years later.The baptistery was finished by Bishop Neon at the end of the 5th c.,at which time the mosaic decorations were added.

6th c.Sant'Apollinare in Classe.Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Bizantine period. 549 CE.-date of consecration by Bishop Maximian. Byzantine mosaic in the apse of the basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe.Four saints mosaic. Saint Ursus of Ravenna.

Basilica di San Vitale, Ravenna, 526-547. Il periodo giustinianeo.

Mid-6th c.Throne of Maximian. Byzantine Ivory, Archiepiscopal Museum. Ravenna. Emilia-Romagna, Italy.Strafforello Gustavo, La patria, geografia dell'Italia. Province di Ravenna, Ferrara, Forlì e Repubblica di San Marino, Unione Tipografico-Editrice, Torino, 1901.

5th-6th c.Arian Baptistry.Battistero degli Ariani. Vault Byzantine mosaics. Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Enthroned cross.

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Ich weiss unverschämt wenig über diese norditalienische Stadt, die sich alles andere als von der dunklen, gar schwarzen Seite zeigt. Ravenna (dt. Raben) erstrahlt im Abend- wie im Morgenlicht, als wollte es dem Aufblühen der Natur Konkurrenz machen, als ich es im April besuchte. All das, was man mit Ravenna verbindet, ist mir noch dunkel aus der Schulzeit bekannt. Doch das dies genau hier passierte, hat man Gedächtnis bereits aussortiert. Dabei spielte sich hier einst große Geschichte ab.

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