Capturing light in Late Antique Ravenna a new interpretation of the archbishops’ chapel

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Ivanovici, V. (2013). Capturing light in Late Antique Ravenna a new interpretation of the archbishops’ chapel, (37), 17-22. doi:10.2298/ZOG1337017I
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Title

Capturing light in Late Antique Ravenna a new interpretation of the archbishops’ chapel

Subtitle
Author

Vladimir, Ivanovici

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

37

Start page

17

End page

22

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1337017I

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611337017I

Date

2013-2020/03/11/20:48:33

Abstract

Analysing the cultural context in which the archbishops’ chapel in Ravenna was built, the article proposes a new interpretation of the structure. Designed in a period when the Catholic Church and the Arian court were clashing, and displaying numerous baptismal motifs, the chapel seems to have been designed as a secluded baptistery. The structure’s baptismal character transpires from its architecture and iconography, analysed here on the backdrop offered by Late Antique baptismal theory and iconography.

Keywords

architecture, light, baptism, chapel, Ravenna, ritual