Palace of Theodoric Mosaic in Ravenna

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by Henk Bekker

Palace of Theodoric Mosaic in Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna

Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna

Note the curtains in the Palace of Theodoric. After Byzantium took direct control of Ravenna, references to Theodoric and his time were removed and replaced by these curtains. Some pillars still feature the original hands of such persons that were not tiled out.

Similarly, the walls of Classe are now depicted as plain masonry, while the original had figures in front of the port city’s defensive walls.