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Survey of World Architectural History I
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Exterior at night Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_of_San_Vitale,_Ravenna,_Italy.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Exterior Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_San_Vital_di_Ravenna.JPG
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Apse (interior) Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emilia_Ravenna5_tango7174.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Choir with intrados: Christ offers the martyr crown to San Vitale, while an angel offers a model of the church to bishop Ecclesius Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanVitale08.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Interior view of cupola Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Vitale_Ravenna_Kuppel.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Interior with matroneum (upper ambulatory) Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanVitale05.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Mosaic: court of Emperor Justinian with (right) archbishop Maximian and (left) court officials and Praetorian Guards Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SanVitale18.jpg
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Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy Plan and section Source: Fletcher, Banister, 1833-1899; A history of architecture on the comparative method (1905) https://archive.org/details/historyofarchite00fletuoft
Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
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