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This is my most viewed image on Fickr. A pov shot looking up towards the dome in the sanctuary of San Vitale in #Ravenna. Gives a good sense of the mosaic program. Over 11K views!
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Sanctuary View (San Vitale, Ravenna)
The church of San Vitale in Ravenna is a crowning jewel of early Christian art and architecture dating to the era of the emperor Justinian. Begun under the bishop Ecclesius in 526, it was completed under Bishop Maximian in 547.Flickr
My first book cover photo was on Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (2014) eds. Upson-Saia, Daniel-Hughes & Batten.
It's a mosaic of Bishop Ecclesius of #Ravenna in the apse of San Vitale offering a model of the church to Christ.
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Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity
The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on dress in the ancient world. These recent studies have established the extent to which Greece and Rome were vestimentary cultures, and they have demonstrated the critical role dress…Routledge & CRC Press
