# Ravenna - Basilica di San Vitale - ceiling - 2026-09-28 22-38-01 001

- By: Terragio67
- Date: 2025-11-12
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ravenna_-_Basilica_di_San_Vitale_-_ceiling_-_2026-09-28_22-38-01_001.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Ravenna_-_Basilica_di_San_Vitale_-_ceiling_-_2026-09-28_22-38-01_001.jpg/1920px-Ravenna_-_Basilica_di_San_Vitale_-_ceiling_-_2026-09-28_22-38-01_001.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.