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Photos of San Vitale Basilica

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This gallery of 275 photos accompanies our article on San Vitale Basilica. Click any image to enlarge or start at the beginning for a virtual tour.

  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • South Ambulatory
  • Twelve Tribes of Israel
  • St. Andrew as Albert Einstein
  • Monogram on Byzantine Capital
  • Saint John the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Interior Looking East
  • South Portal and Apsidal Chapel
  • Moses and the Burning Bush
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Ambulatory Detail
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Isaiah
  • Ambulatory Vault
  • Abraham and the Angels
  • South Ambulatory
  • Apse Mosaic: Angel
  • St. Matthew
  • Byzantine Capital
  • View into the Presbytery
  • Stories of Abraham
  • Mosaic Pavement Detail: Bird
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Empress Theodora
  • Ambulatory Detail
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Offering of Melchizedek
  • Presbytery Vault
  • Empress Theodora
  • Stories of Abraham
  • Apse Mosaic: San Vitale
  • St. Thaddeus
  • Offering of Melchizedek
  • Moses Tending the Flocks
  • Left Wall of the Presbytery
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer with Angels
  • Empress Theodora
  • Ambulatory
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Abel Offers a Lamb
  • Presbytery
  • City of Jerusalem
  • View from South
  • The Three Angels
  • Saint John the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Presbytery Arch: Left Side
  • Abraham and Isaac
  • Ambulatory
  • St. James the Greater
  • Saint Matthew the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Presbytery and Galleries
  • Early Christian Sarcophagus: Raising of Lazarus
  • Jerusalem
  • View from North
  • Interior View
  • Saint Mark the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Presbytery Arch Detail
  • Vault Mosaics
  • Early Christian Sarcophagus: Adoration of the Magi
  • Emperor Justinian
  • St. Bartholomew
  • Mosaic Pavement Detail
  • Jeremiah
  • Saint Matthew the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Presbytery Corner
  • Early Christian Sarcophagus: Adoration of the Magi
  • Arch Mosaic: Christ
  • View from South
  • Interior View
  • Saint Mark the Evangelist (c.547 AD)
  • Arch Mosaic: Christ with Peter and Paul
  • Emperor Justinian and Entourage (c.547 AD)
  • Abraham and Sarah
  • St. John the Evangelist
  • Mosaic Pavement Detail
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Capitals and Galleries
  • Emperor Justinian and Entourage (c.547 AD)
  • Abel and Melchizedek
  • Presbytery Angels
  • View from East
  • Interior Architecture
  • Isaiah
  • Interior View
  • Aerial View
  • View from Galla Placidia Mausoleum
  • View from North
  • View from North
  • View from North
  • View from North
  • Bell Tower
  • View from South
  • East Apse
  • East Apse
  • Exterior
  • View from Northeast
  • View from Northeast
  • East Apse
  • Southeast Exterior
  • Southeast Exterior
  • South Chapel
  • Arch Mosaic: Christ
  • St. Andrew / Albert Einstein
  • Vault Mosaics
  • Left Wall of Presbytery
  • St. John the Evangelist
  • Abel and Melchizedek
  • Presbytery Angels
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: San Vitale
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Christ the Redeemer
  • Apse Mosaic: Angel
  • Emperor Justinian and Entourage
  • Emperor Justinian and Entourage
  • Emperor Justinian
  • Emperor Justinian
  • Empress Theodora
  • Empress Theodora
  • Empress Theodora
  • Empress Theodora
  • Empress Theodora
  • Ambulatory
  • Ambulatory.
  • Ambulatory
  • Ambulatory


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