mar 19, 526 - San Vitale

Description:

Date: 526-547

Artist: unknown

Medium: brick, marble, stone

Location: Ravenna, Italy

Function: Primary to worship, Glorify the byzantine emperor

Extra info:
Justinian and Attendants
- Left is the clergy and right is the military
- dressed in royal purple and gold
- holding a paten, for the Eucharist
Theodora and Attendants
- she is a secondary role to her husband
- she is standing in an architectural framework, holding a chalice for the mass
- Flattened figures and weightless
- 3 magi, brings baby Jesus,

Culture comparison: Buildings with circular plans
- pantheo,
- dome of rock,
- mosque of Selium II.

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7 May 2019

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