San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna

44.417904°N 12.205526°E / 44.417904; 12.205526

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista.

San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in Ravenna, Italy.

It was built in the fifth century AD by the Roman imperial princess Galla Placidia.[1]

In the Middle Ages the Benedictines annexed to it an important monastery. Two of the four bells date to 1208. In the 14th century both the church and the monastery were renovated in the Gothic style: of that intervention the portal is visible today. In 1747 the church was almost entirely stripped of its mosaics; the only two remaining fragments of the original 5th-century floor record the first Christian use of hooked crosses. Heavily bombed during World War II,[1] the building was later restored. Other mosaic fragments found surviving the WWII bombing belong to the 13th-century floor and depict the Fourth Crusade.

References
  1. Smith, Janet (1990), "The Side Chambers of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ravenna: Church Libraries of the Fifth Century", Gesta, 29 (1): 86–97, JSTOR 767103
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