Lost Artworks - 5th Century

5th Century

• Mosaic portraits of members of the western and eastern imperial families and the bishop of Ravenna, commissioned by Galla Placidia in the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna (c. 425 C.E.). Destroyed by 1747.
• The Regisole, an equestrian monument to Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, erected at Ravenna. Moved to Pavia in the Middle Ages, it stood before the cathedral. Destroyed by the Jacobin Club in Pavia in 1796, because considered as a symbol of monarchy.