This morning Willard had started early to see some Byzantine mosaics.
The school is about seven miles from Ravenna, renowned for its Byzantine mosaics.
Very few early Byzantine mosaics survived the Iconoclastic destruction of the 8th century.
Byzantine mosaics depicting birds and animals were discovered on the hilltop in 1924.
This detail is from one of four Byzantine mosaics whose fate has been decided.
The town contains a museum with fifty Byzantine mosaics.
There were also many wall-paintings in fresco, but fewer of these have survived than Byzantine mosaics.
"There might not be Byzantine mosaics, but the history is important."
His nose swooped down right out of that arch, like a prince's in a Byzantine mosaic.
Some Byzantine mosaics survive, as do still older columns and capitals.