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Scala/Art Resource, New York, NY
The adornment of Byzantine churches also extended to the liturgical vestments that the priests wore, as seen in the richly decorated garb of St. Apollinaris, first bishop of Classe, outside Ravenna, Italy. This mosaic depiction of St. Apollinaris stands in the apse of the sixth-century Basilica of San Apollinare in Classe.