Places in Ravenna: The Roman Community
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Galla Placidia, the Archiepiscopal Chapel, the Orthodox Baptistery, San Vitale. ...
 The Orthodox Baptistery
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To the Roman period dates the Baptistery of the Orthodox (or Neonian, completed about 450 by bishop Neonius). The stark building, situated next to what was the Catholic cathedral, the Basilica Ursiana (now the Duomo,entirely renovated in the 1700s), houses a three-tiered mosaic cycle: the Baptism of Christ in the cupola, with the River Jordan personified by an old man, a row of Apostles and a symbolic row of thrones and crosses. [pic]
Text: Ælfwine Scylding. Background image: Ælfwine Scylding. Other background images: Mix 'n' Match
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Created by: * Aelfwine Scylding, Sep 4, 2006 - 12:25
