Here's a delightful gift -- three pages of photographs of the interior of Sant' Appolinare in Classe in Ravenna, Italy.
In addition to the paintings on the first page, there are the world-renowned mosaics on the second, and two marble sarcophagi on the third.
Roman mosaics in Tunisia, of all places. Who knew?!
Here are three fine mosaics, made in 1291, by Pietro Cavallini, for the Santa Maria Church in Trastevere, Rome --
Nativity of the Virgin
Annunciation
Birth of Jesus
Ancient mosaics - images.
Still more -- Istanbul Mosaic Museum on the Web.
And then there are the mosaics of Aquileia, Italy. I need to find out more about these.
And most intriguingly of all -- Roman mosaics in Tunisia. Very worthwhile.
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