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Early or Middle Byzantine Architecture

Salon 3, catalog no. 3

  • Started in 526 A.D. Completed in 547 A.D.

 

  • Ravenna, Italy

 

  • Basilica of San Vitale

 

  • Bishop Ecclesius, Bishop Maximian, sponsored by Julius Argentarius

 

  • First a Catholic Church, then a Mosque, now a musuem

 

  • It is interesting how once minarets were added to the building the function was compoletely changed.

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