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Ravenna, Italy, 547 Traditional plain exterior and polygonal apse, San Vitale is not a basilica. It is centrally planned and features two concentric octagons.
Central space surrounded by alternating piers and exredae Off-axis narthex takes away from design, but choir before apse gives axial stability
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537, Constantinople Athemius and Isidorus
, brick - Plain exterior, rich interior.
- Pendentives transfer weight of dome.
- Synthesis of vertically oriented central-plan building and longitudinally oriented basilica.
- Arcades fill empty space between piers. Shows Anthemius and Isidorus wanted Roman monumentality visually, but not really
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| Justinian and Theodora Mosaics |
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547, San Vitale, glass mosaic - Choir walls next to apse mosaic
- JUSTINIAN: united with Jesus by halo, purple robe, surrounded by clergy, imperial guards, and staff. Floating spatially, gold sky, no perspective.
- THEODORA: Three magi on robe
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Constantine, Rome, basilica, 320 - Wide central nave, flanking aisles, apse at end.
- Courtyard preceding, enter through narthex
- Transept, between nave and apse, unique to Constantinian church
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Rome, 420 - Early Xian character like St. Peters, basilica
- Timber roof above clerestory windows
- Corinthian columns
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320, Central plan building has ambulatory |
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| Mausoleum of Galla Placidia |
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Ravenna, 420 - Cruciform, or cross-shaped
- Fusion of longitudinal basicila and vertical central plan
- Good Shepherd lunette still classical (shadows, blue sky, 3D forms)
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300, palace complex - similar to Santa Sabina, triumphal arch divides main hall from apse
- simple interior
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