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Ravenna - Basilica di San Vitale - ceiling - 2026-09-28 22-38-01 001
2025-11-12
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Although the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna is world-renowned for its celebrated sixth-century Byzantine mosaics, the pictorial decoration of the dome dates to a late eighteenth-century intervention: Jacopo Guarana (a Venetian painter), who executed the figural elements and the central narrative scene; Serafino Barozzi and Ubaldo Gandolfi (of the Bolognese school), who were responsible for the illusionistic architectural perspectives (quadratura), the painted coffering, and the floral ornamentation.
