Geography + Transmission Atlas / Ravenna & Byzantine Italy

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Byzantium and the Latin West

Long-running field of artistic exchange in which Byzantine and Western artists adopted styles and compositions from one another.

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Geography + Transmission profile

Ravenna & Byzantine Italy

primarily 5th–8th c. Byzantine Italy context · 3 registered sources

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Historical frame

Ravenna and Byzantine Italy contact context.

Production / use

San Vitale and Ravenna are surviving use contexts, not automatic production locations for all related motifs.

Movement / provenance

Political/artistic contacts are source-backed; object movement is not invented.

Political / ecclesiastical

Ravenna’s changing Roman, Ostrogothic and Byzantine political role matters to the monuments.

Artistic relation

UNESCO explicitly notes eastern and western artistic relationships; BIU does not turn that into a one-way route.

Reception / adaptation

Western reception remains distinct from direct provenance.

Uncertainty

Map position, proximity or visual similarity never creates a transmission edge. Follow the named source and explicit relationship records.

Geography is not transmission proofGeographic proximity, shared typology, or visual similarity does not establish influence, workshop movement, trade, or transmission direction.

Direct graph trails

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Places + regional groupings

4 direct

Constantinopleconnects · qualified-source-backed Veniceconnects · source-backed Ravenna East–West Contact Network← connects-to-broader-exchange · qualified-source-backed Crete–Venice Icon Reception Network← participates-in · source-backed

Verified objects

0 direct

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Icon types + scenes

1 direct

Virgin Eleousa← transmitted-to · source-backed

Materials + making

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History + actors

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Sacred-space evidence

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Concepts + transmission methods

1 direct

Cretan Icon Paintingincludes · source-backed

Two-step navigation

Keep the intermediate evidence visible.

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← located-in →Hagia Sophia

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← located-in →Chora Church / Monastery

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← associated-with →Icon with the Virgin and Child (Met 17.190.103)

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← made-in →Double-Sided Pendant Icon (Met 1994.403)

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← associated-with →Virgin Hodegetria

Byzantium and the Latin West← transmitted-to →Virgin Eleousauses-medium →Miniature Mosaic

Byzantium and the Latin West← connects-to-broader-exchange →Ravenna East–West Contact Networkuses-medium →Mosaic

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← occurs-at →Capture of Constantinople, 1204

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← occurs-at →Byzantine Reconquest of Constantinople, 1261

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← connects →Byzantine–Slavic Transmission

Byzantium and the Latin Westconnects →Constantinople← connects →Byzantine–Georgian Enamel Network

Geography source trail

Sources supporting this profile.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Religious Relationship between Byzantium and the West
Open source ↗

text-reference-only

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261–1557)
Open source ↗

text-reference-only

UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
Open source ↗

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Discovery profile

Where can this record lead?

6 bounded direct results · 12 bounded two-step paths · 1 navigation theme

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Cretan Icon PaintingByzantium and the Latin West —includes→ Cretan Icon Painting · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-201.Crete–Venice Icon Reception NetworkByzantium and the Latin West ←participates-in— Crete–Venice Icon Reception Network · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-702.VeniceByzantium and the Latin West —connects→ Venice · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-200.Virgin EleousaByzantium and the Latin West ←transmitted-to— Virgin Eleousa · source-backedWhy this? Explicit relationship rel-205.

Visible two-step paths

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Byzantium and the Latin WestincludesCretan Icon Paintingcentered-inCrete
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Byzantium and the Latin WestincludesCretan Icon Paintingcentered-inCandia / Heraklion
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Byzantium and the Latin WestincludesCretan Icon Paintingprecedes-afterlife-ofFall of Constantinople, 1453
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