Basilica of San Vitale
Its mosaics of Justinian and Theodora are the best-known image of the Byzantine court
- Style
- Byzantine art — Gold mosaics and a heaven-like dome: the church as paradise, the icon as a window to eternity
- Century
- 6th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 532–537 Hagia Sophia — Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus · Byzantine art · Constantinople (Istanbul)
- c. 550 Christ Pantocrator (Sinai) · Byzantine art · Probably Constantinople; kept at Sinai
What was happening in the world
- 537 Hagia Sophia consecrated
- 541–549 Plague of Justinian
- 529–534 Code of Justinian
- 536 Volcanic winter of 536