Quali sono i mosaici di San Vitale?

Quali sono i mosaici di San Vitale?

I celebri mosaici si riferiscono al momento in cui la basilica fu consacrata ufficialmente (nel 547) : quando con due sfarzosi cortei, l'Imperatore Giustiniano e sua moglie Teodora, committenti della basilica e delle decorazioni musive, offrono il pane e il vino, simboli dell'Eucarestia.

Cosa rappresentano e quale significato simbolico hanno i pannelli laterali dell abside della basilica di San Vitale?

L'arco dell'abside ha un significato imperiale. Le due aquile imperiali sorreggono il clipeo cristologico che rappresenta il monogramma stilizzato (costantiniano imperiale) di Cristo.

Where is San Vitale?

• San Vitale is a minor basilica, as well as a parish and titular church, located at Via Nazionale 194/B in the rione Monti, and amounts to a fragment of an early 5th century basilica. Pictures of the church at Wikimedia Commons are here.

What is the significance of the Basilica of San Vitale?

• The Basilica of San Vitale is a church in Ravenna, Italy, and one of the most important surviving examples of early Christian Byzantine art and architecture in Europe. The Roman Catholic Church has designated the building a "basilica", the honorific title bestowed on church buildings of exceptional historic...

What is the Church of San Vitale made of?

• Church of San Vitale. The octagonal structure is made of marble and capped by a lofty terra-cotta dome. The celebrated mosaics were strongly influenced by similar work at Constantinople ( Istanbul ). They depict Old and New Testament figures as well as contemporary Byzantine rulers and Catholic ecclesiastics.

What is transtranscript San Vitale?

• Transcript San Vitale is one of the most important surviving examples of Byzantine architecture and mosaic work. It was begun in 5 under Ostrogothic rule. It was consecrated in 547 and completed soon after.