. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Eome and Constantinople, and well situated forreceiving influence from both those cities, stood Eavenna,and here a series of buildings, all more or less Byzantine,were erected. The most interesting of these is the churchof San Vitale (Figs. 160, 161). This building is octagonalin plan, and thus belongs to the series of round andpolygonal churches and baptisteries for which the circularbuildings of the Eomans furnished a model; but in itshigh central dome, lighted by windows placed high up,its many subsidiary arcades and apses, the latter roofedby h
. Architecture, classic and early Christian . Eome and Constantinople, and well situated forreceiving influence from both those cities, stood Eavenna,and here a series of buildings, all more or less Byzantine,were erected. The most interesting of these is the churchof San Vitale (Figs. 160, 161). This building is octagonalin plan, and thus belongs to the series of round andpolygonal churches and baptisteries for which the circularbuildings of the Eomans furnished a model; but in itshigh central dome, lighted by windows placed high up,its many subsidiary arcades and apses, the latter roofedby half-domes, and its vaulted aisles in two stories, itrecalls Santa Sophia; and its sculpture, carving, andmosaic decorations are hardly less famous and no lesscharacteristic. One magnificent specimen of Byzantine architecture,more within the reach of ordinary travellers, and con-sequently better known than San Vitale or Santa Sophia,must not be omitted, and can be studied easily by meansof numberless photographic illustrations—St. Marks at. Fig. icu.—Plan of San Viiale at Rav£.\.\a. :«^
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