Basilica of San Vitale
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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 and architecture, and its mosaics in particular
The Church of San Vitale
Layout of San Vitale (Jackson 1913)
Exterior view of St. Vitale
Southeast view
Belisarius
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Flavius Belisarius was a military commander of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Belisarius was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the Mediterranean territory belonging to the for
Basilica of San Vitale
…apse) is a mosaic depicting the East Roman Emperor Justinian I, clad in Tyrian purple with a golden halo, standing next to court officials, generals Belisarius and Narses, Bishop Maximian, palatinae guards, and deacons. The halo around his head gives him the same aspect as Christ in the dome of the apse, but…
Belisarius is generally considered to be this bearded figure on the left of Emperor Justinian I in the mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Roman army.
Belisarius attacking the Ostrogoths in Rome, 536, by Hermann Vogel
Belisarius, by François-André Vincent (1776). Belisarius, blinded, a beggar, is recognised by one of his former soldiers.
The outcast Belisarius receiving hospitality from a peasant by Jean-François Pierre Peyron (1779)