Abstract
Abstract Situated on the southern branch of the Po River in northeast Italy, Ravenna served as capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402–476. From the later fifth to the mid‐eighth century Ravenna effectively remained capital of Italy, first under Germanic and Ostrogothic kings and then under Byzantine control, until it fell to the Lombards in 751. The best preserved and most important material remains from the ancient city are its rich collection of Late Antique churches, mosaics, and sarcophagi. These monuments offer valuable evidence for the history of artistic production between the early Christian and medieval periods, an historically underrepresented art era due to the iconoclastic destructions of the eighth and ninth centuries in the Byzantine East.
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