{"id":2200,"date":"2012-05-25T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walks.friday.ie\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T10:48:12","slug":"byzantine-mosaic-art-in-ravenna-and-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walksofitaly.com\/blog\/art-culture\/byzantine-mosaic-art-in-ravenna-and-italy","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Byzantine Churches in Italy: 6 Places to See Art & Mosaics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the best Byzantine mosaics in the world are in… Italy! It’s true: Although the Byzantine Empire<\/a>, which dated from the 4th to 15th centuries A.D., was based in modern-day Istanbul, it also stretched into Italy\u2014even taking over the entire Italian boot in the reconquest of the 6th<\/sup> century. Even today, you can see amazing Byzantine churches in Italy.<\/p>\n

That’s right – you don\u2019t have to go to Turkey to see some of the best Byzantine art in the world, including their magnificent mosaics. Here are six of our favorite Byzantine churches in Italy to see mosaics and other beautiful works of art.<\/p>\n

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The mosaics of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice are stunning… but they aren’t the only amazing mosaics in Italy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Art historians usually say that, in Italy, Byzantine mosaics were done after <\/em>Emperor Justinian I tried to reunite the Byzantine empire\u2019s two halves during his reign from 527-565. Before <\/em>that, mosaics still were in the ancient Roman, classical style. So it wasn’t\u00a0until the 6th<\/sup> century that the Byzantine style really was codified. It was characterized by a severe, ethereal style that was much different from the naturalism of ancient Roman art. Those are the mosaics we’ve included in this post!.<\/p>\n

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