San Vitale Apse: A Holistic Consideration

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10.2991/assehr.k.220706.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

San Vitale; Medieval Mediterranean; Byzantine

Abstract

The decorative program within San Vitale plays an important role within Byzantine art history. As a deliberately planned layout, intimate connections exist among all elements that form the church’s interior. Nevertheless, past scholarly literature has invested immense attention on specific components of the overall program, making a holistic consideration necessary. This paper reveals the coherent holistic program of San Vitale by examining each detail section of the apse decorations as well as several links between the apse and the presbytery. From the dados to the apse vault mosaic, from the decorative borders on the apse vault to the spandrels on presbytery walls, the comprehensive perspective employed resulted in a better understanding of San Vitale as a whole. While the contents of the mosaics fall under the general theme of Christ’s redemption of humanity, there is also an emphasis on divinity and imperial power.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lingran Liu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/14
TI  - San Vitale Apse: A Holistic Consideration
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange（ICLACE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 571
EP  - 579
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.108
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.108
ID  - Liu2022
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