| LC control no. | sh 95000067 |
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| Topical heading | Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (Ravenna, Italy) |
| Variant(s) | Galla Placidia, Mausoleum of (Ravenna, Italy) Mausoleo di Galla Placidia (Ravenna, Italy) S. Nazario e Celso (Ravenna, Italy) Santi Nazario e Celso (Ravenna, Italy) Tomb of Galla Placidia (Ravenna, Italy) |
| See also | Mausoleums--Italy |
| Found in | Work cat.: Il considdetto Mausoleo di Galla Placidia in Ravenna, 1950. Britannica Micro.: v. 9, p. 959 (Mausoleum of Galla Placidia; built in the 5th cent. A.D.) Northern Italy, 1889: v. 1, p. 337 ("S. Nazario e Celso, the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia") Northern Italy, 1930: p. 507 (Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, now Santi Nazario e Celso) Princeton encyc. classic. sites: p. 751 (Tomb of Galla Placidia) Ravenna Tourism website, viewed July 31, 2017: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia ("Galla Placidia (386 - 450 AD), sister of the Roman Emperor Honorius... built this little Mausoleum with a Greek cross plan around 425-450 as her own resting place. However, the mausoleum was never used for that purpose, because the empress died and was buried in Rome in 450"; once connected to the Church of Santa Croce; now open as a tourist site) Britannica online, viewed July 31, 2017: Aelia Galla Placidia ("the small chapel usually--though wrongly--known as the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia contains some of the finest examples of early Byzantine mosaics") Sacred destinations, viewed July 31, 2017: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna (known for its amazing mosaics; probably commissioned by Galla Placidia, never buried there; on the World Heritage List; contains three sarcophagi that were believed to be some of the late Roman emperors in Ravenna, but this is doubtful; probably functioned as the oratory of the church of the Holy Cross) |
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