Something Beautiful

Sant' Appolinare (Ravenna)

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

Roman mosaics in Tunisia, of all places.   Who knew?!

 

Three mosaics from a Rome church

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

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.