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Basilica di Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
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Often regarded as just plain 'dark', the Italian Middle Ages had an artistic brilliance
that's hard to ignore. Perhaps it was the sparkling hand-cut mosaic of Ravenna's Byzantine
basilicas (
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that provided the guiding light, but something inspired Giotto di Bon-
done to leap out of the shadows with his daring naturalistic frescoes in Padua's Cappella
