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Mosaics da via Panisperna / Mosaics from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early Ist century BC today at Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Photos: otdelnovpavel

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Mosaics da via Panisperna / Mosaics from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early Ist century BC today at Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy

Photos: Carole Raddato / wikimedia commons / CC BY-SA 2.0

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Hosios Loukas /Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς Distomo, Greece, 10th century

Photo: otdelnovpavel

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Hosios Loukas / Ὅσιος Λουκᾶς Distomo, Greece, 10th century

Photo: otdelnovpavel

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Santa Prassede / Basilica of Saint Praxedes, Rome, Italy, early 9th century

Photo: Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology

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Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere / Our Lady in Trastevere, Rome, Italy, 12th and 13th-century (church dates back to 340s)

Photos: Gary Ullah (top), Sailko (bottom left), Welleschik (bottom right)/ wikimedia commons

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Pietro Cavallini: Life of the Virgin - details

Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere / Our Lady in Trastevere, Rome, Italy, 12th and 13th-century (church dates back to 340s)

Photos: public domain /  wikimedia commons

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Detail from Chora Church / Church of the Holy Saviour, Inner narthex (esonarthex): Saint Peter, Istanbul, Turkey, 1320/21 (church dates back to the 4th century) uncovered and restored 1948

Photo: VasenkaPhotography  

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Pietro Cavallini: Life of the Virgin

Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere / Our Lady in Trastevere, Rome, Italy, 12th and 13th-century (church dates back to 340s)

Photos: public domain / wikimedia commons

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Baptistery of Saint John / Battistero di San Giovanni, Florence, Italy, about 1301

Photo: public domain / wikimedia commons

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Floor mosaic fragments of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna, Italy, 1213

Photos: Watchduck /wikimedia commons

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The Madaba Map

Part of a floor mosaic the in the church of Saint George depicting the Holy Land in the 6th century AD,

St. George, Madaba, Jordan, 6th century

Photos: Carole Raddato

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Church of the Savior on Blood / Церковь Спаса на Крови, Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1883 - 1907

Photo: charles young

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Apse of Euphrasian Basilica/ Eufrazijeva bazilika/ Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Poreč, Croatia, 6th century

Photo: heffelumpen9

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Ciborium of Euphrasian Basilica/ Eufrazijeva bazilika/ Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Poreč, Croatia, 1277 (church dates back to the 6th century)

Photo: raffaele pagani

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Apse of Euphrasian Basilica/ Eufrazijeva bazilika/ Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Poreč, Croatia, 6th century

Photo: Dmitri Korobtsov