Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine ...

Ravenna boasts the largest collection of Byzantine mosaics in Western Europe. These mosaics are breathtaking. They are so detailed and beautiful, they look like paintings. Imagine vast ...

The mosaics of the Archiepiscopal Chapel are the main attraction and are among the best-preserved examples of Byzantine art in Ravenna. The Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo was originally built ...

A mosaic depicting the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (left) decorates Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale (right). The monumental building was one of many constructed during his reign, which lasted ...

First, he stops in the town of Ravenna, where he meets the artists who restore the famed Byzantine mosaics. Then he travels along to the Republic of San Marino.

It focuses on theoretical issues concerned with icons, portraits, diagrams, syncretism, the built environment, and cross-cultural conflicts that shaped the complex geo-political and religious context ...