Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem
Name of text: | Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem |
Author of text: | Rossi |
Date of text: | 1589 |
Date of person in text: | |
Name of structure in text: | S. Maria Maggiore, Ravenna |
Type of structure in text: | Church |
Date of structure in text | 521-534 |
Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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Country in text: | Italy |
Region in text: | Emelia Romagna |
City in text: | Ravenna |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | Vault of the tribune |
Description of mosaic in text: | Virgin Mary, Christ, angel |
Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
Colour descriptions in text: | |
Bibliography: | Rossi, H., Historiarum Ravennatum libri decem (Venice: Paolo Manuzio, 1589), quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘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. 124-5. |
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Comments: | Fabri writing in 1664 describes it as having been destroyed. |