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42640028 Mosaic Madonna, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Mosaic Madonna, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; taken with a Canon EOS 1v.
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The remaining mosaics - the standing prophets, processions of saints, the Three Magi, and the large Virgin and Child - date from the Catholic period around 560 AD. At this time the palace of Theodoric and port of Classe were severely altered to remove all portraits of the Arian Gothic rulers.
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Madonna (122 x 298 cm.)
A mosaic of extraordinary iconographic and iconological richness. The iconography describes the solemnity of the mother of Christ, seated on the throne, and of a Christ no longer infant but adolescent; in any case old enough to reign and bless with the command of the right hand, and to represent Wisdom and the Light of the World with the sacred book (the scroll) held in his left. The absence of the abbreviation of the holy name MP (Meter) OY (theon), mother of god, could be a sign of the refusal of Theodoric's Arian court to accept titles with Catholic meanings. The Roman model of the Mother of Christ and Mother of God is that of Sixtus III in S. Maria Maggiore.
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42640028 Mosaic Madonna, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Mosaic Madonna, Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna; taken with a Canon EOS 1v.
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The remaining mosaics - the standing prophets, processions of saints, the Three Magi, and the large Virgin and Child - date from the Catholic period around 560 AD. At this time the palace of Theodoric and port of Classe were severely altered to remove all portraits of the Arian Gothic rulers.
sacred-destinations.com/italy/ravenna-st-apollinare-nuovo
.
Madonna (122 x 298 cm.)
A mosaic of extraordinary iconographic and iconological richness. The iconography describes the solemnity of the mother of Christ, seated on the throne, and of a Christ no longer infant but adolescent; in any case old enough to reign and bless with the command of the right hand, and to represent Wisdom and the Light of the World with the sacred book (the scroll) held in his left. The absence of the abbreviation of the holy name MP (Meter) OY (theon), mother of god, could be a sign of the refusal of Theodoric's Arian court to accept titles with Catholic meanings. The Roman model of the Mother of Christ and Mother of God is that of Sixtus III in S. Maria Maggiore.
initaly.com/regions/byzant/byzant4.htm#basnuo