Deacons from Justinian's retinue: mosaic detail from the northern wall of the sanctuary, San Vitale, Ravenna, 547 AD. This example is typical of the wall painting of the Justinianic era.
Opera di Religione della Diocesi di Ravenna.
Lowden, J., Early Christian & Byzantine Art, Phaidon Press Limited, London 1997, p. 131, ill. 79.
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