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XXI.—On the Byzantine Origin of the Church of St. Vitalis at Ravenna, with Remarks on other Churches in that City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

Edwin Freshfield
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It is hardly necessary to describe the situation of the town of Ravenna. Its ancient fortress occupied a strong position, resting on the sea towards the east and south, and, with an ample harbour for those days, it could not be blockaded by any army not possessing also a fleet. Lying out of the beaten track, and thus defended by the sea, Ravenna, at a time when Western Europe was convulsed with the commotions dependent upon the extinction of the Western Empire, was contentedly secure under the protection of the yet powerful empire of Constantinople.

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Archaeologia , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , 1880 , pp. 417 - 426
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1880

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page 417 note a This plan and that of the church of SS. Sergius and Bacchus in the same plate have been adapted from Baron Hubseh's work, Monuments de l'Architecture Chrétienne. Paris, 1866Google Scholar.

page 420 note a Agnelli Liber Pontificalis. Modena, 1708. Pars Secunda, p. 38.

page 420 note b Idem, p. 39.

page 421 note a Idem, p. 40.

page 421 note b Idem, p. 94.

page 422 note a Monuments de l'Architecture Chrétienne. Paris, 1866.

page 423 note a Handbook of Architecture, p. 512.

page 426 note a A description of this chair is given in Westwood's Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum, p. 357. An unsatisfactory engraving of it may be found in Du Sommerard's Arts du Moyen Age, Album, lre Série, pl. xi., and also in the appendix to the Liber Pontificalis of Agnellus, Our engraving, together with the others from Ravenna, is reproduced from photographs by Signor Luigi Ricci of Ravenna, who has printed a list of nearly 500 photographs of buildings and antiquities in that city.