San Vitale
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 | San Vitale |
| Designer | unknown |
| Location | Ravenna, Italy |
| Date | 526 to 547 |
| Building Type | church, religious |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Byzantine |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | Byzantine centralized church. Two concentric octagons. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/San_Vitale.html |
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"...the 'double-shell' plan comprised a domed octagonal core, with wedge-shaped piers framing two-storied, apsidial columnar screens, with a deep chancel running off to the east... The outer shell as well as the inner were octagonal so that the aisles and galleries comprised a series of uniform trapezoidal spaces... and the sides of the octagonal core were uniformly apsidial. The feeling of strictness was reinforced by the taller, more�'erect,' proportions of the interior, and by the regular shape of the cloister-vaulted dome. The exterior, too, embodied precision in design and execution, with a bold buildup of crisply articulated and beautifully proportioned volumes that were surely more than a mere reflection of the interior."
— Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p175.
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Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Drawings of Great Buildings. Boston: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983. ISBN 3-7643-1522-9. LC 83-15831. NA2706.U6D72 1983. plan and section drawings, p53. — Available at Amazon.com
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
William L. MacDonald. Early Christian & Byzantine Architecture. New York: George Braziller, 1962. aerial photo of exterior, f40.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. cutaway drawing, p82.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com
Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. aerial perspective drawing, f194, p97. no image credit.
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San Vitale Basilica - Sacred Destinations
