And now for something ephemeral, consider this beautiful tree flower. Was a Byzantine emperor in all his glory clothed like one of these?
Friday 10 October 2014
Among the mosaics
The sheen of the pictures, compressing one and a half millennia between surface and eyeball, is overwhelming. Impossible to reproduce the impact with a point and shoot camera and instant iPad enhance, but here are some impressions.
And now for something ephemeral, consider this beautiful tree flower. Was a Byzantine emperor in all his glory clothed like one of these?
And now for something ephemeral, consider this beautiful tree flower. Was a Byzantine emperor in all his glory clothed like one of these?
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You have certainly confirmed my determination to get to Ravenna (one day)!
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