Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem
| Name of text: | Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem |
| Author of text: | H. Rossi |
| Date of text: | 1572 |
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| Name of structure in text: | S. John the Evangelist/S. Giovanni Evangelista |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | Built in 5th C by Galla Placidia |
| Century of structure 1: | 5 AD |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
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| City in text: | Ravenna |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Walls, apse, arches, vaults |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Walls: Galla Placidia’s peril at sea and her vow. Apse: Christ presenting book to John the Evangelist flanked by glassy sea with two storm-tossed ships. Seven chandeliers and other symbols from the Apocalypse. Images of Constantine, Valentinian, Gratian and other members of the royal family. Arch of the apse: Constantine, Theodosios I, Arcadios, Honorios, Theodosios Nepos [son of GP], Valentinian II, Gratian and John Nepos [brothers of GP]. Near choir bench: Theodosios II and Eudokia and their children Arcadios and Eudoxia. Middle of apse vault: Christ Pantokrator on a throne surrounded by 12 books. Peter Chrysogolus saying mass. Most of the images accompanied by inscriptions. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | H. Rossi, Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem (Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1572), pp. 85-86, quoted in Caecilia Davis-Weyer, Early Medieval Art: 300-1150 (Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1986), pp. 16-17. Muntz, Eugene, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Ravenna’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 1.2/3 (1885), 115-130, see pp. 118-121
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| Comments: | All the mosaics were destroyed in 1568 by Abbot Aldrovandi. |