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Archiepiscopal Chapel is a chapel
Chapel

A chapel is a building used as a place for fellowship and of worship for Christians. It may be attached to an institution such as a large Church , a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, or may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds....
 on the first floor of the bishops' palace in Ravenna
Ravenna

Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is a private oratory
Oratory (worship)

In Christianity, an oratory is a room for prayer, from the Latin orare, to pray.In the Roman Catholic Church, an oratory is for all intents and purposes another word for what is commonly called a chapel....
 of Trinitarian
Trinity

In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
 bishops dating from the turn of the 6th century. Although commonly attributed to St. Peter Chrysologus
Peter Chrysologus

Saint Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 AD until his death. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729....
, Archbishop of Ravenna from 433–450, the chapel was actually built by Peter II shortly after he became archbishop in 495.

The tiny cruciform chapel is currently dedicated to Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew

Saint Andrew , called in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition Protocletos, or the First-called, is a Christian Twelve Apostles and the younger brother of Saint Peter....
, although the original dedication was to the Saviour, as evidenced by a lunette
Lunette

In architecture, a lunette is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs....
 over the vestibule
Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule is a lobby , entrance hall, or passage between the entrance and the interior of a building.The same term can apply to structures in Modern architecture or Roman architecture....
 door representing Christ as a warrior.






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Archiepiscopal Chapel is a chapel
Chapel

A chapel is a building used as a place for fellowship and of worship for Christians. It may be attached to an institution such as a large Church , a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, or may be an entirely free-standing building, sometimes with its own grounds....
 on the first floor of the bishops' palace in Ravenna
Ravenna

Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna once served as the seat of the Western Roman Empire and later the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is a private oratory
Oratory (worship)

In Christianity, an oratory is a room for prayer, from the Latin orare, to pray.In the Roman Catholic Church, an oratory is for all intents and purposes another word for what is commonly called a chapel....
 of Trinitarian
Trinity

In Christianity doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of God the Father, God the Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in monotheism. The doctrine states that God is the Triune God, existing as three persons, or in the Greek hypostasis , but one being....
 bishops dating from the turn of the 6th century. Although commonly attributed to St. Peter Chrysologus
Peter Chrysologus

Saint Peter Chrysologus was Bishop of Ravenna from about 433 AD until his death. He is revered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XIII in 1729....
, Archbishop of Ravenna from 433–450, the chapel was actually built by Peter II shortly after he became archbishop in 495.

The tiny cruciform chapel is currently dedicated to Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew

Saint Andrew , called in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition Protocletos, or the First-called, is a Christian Twelve Apostles and the younger brother of Saint Peter....
, although the original dedication was to the Saviour, as evidenced by a lunette
Lunette

In architecture, a lunette is a half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void. A lunette is formed when a horizontal cornice transects a round-headed arch at the level of the imposts, where the arch springs....
 over the vestibule
Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule is a lobby , entrance hall, or passage between the entrance and the interior of a building.The same term can apply to structures in Modern architecture or Roman architecture....
 door representing Christ as a warrior. The lower parts of the walls are lined with marble slabs, while the rest of the interior used to be covered with rich, tapestry-like mosaic
Mosaic

Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other material. It may be a technique of Decorative arts, an aspect of interior decoration or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral....
s. Some parts of these survive, while others were substituted with tempera
Tempera

File:Duccio The-Madonna-and-Child-128.jpgTempera is a type of artist's paint and associated Art techniques and materials that were known from the classical world, where it appears to have taken over from encaustic painting and was the main medium used for panel painting and illuminated manuscripts in the Byzantine world and the Middle Ages...
 paintings by Luca Longhi
Luca Longhi

Luca Longhi , was an Italy painter of the Mannerist period, born and active near Ravenna, where he mainly produced religious paintings and portraits....
 in the 16th century.

According to the ICOMOS evaluation of this World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
, "the significance of this property is the fact that it is the only Early Christian private oratory
Oratory (worship)

In Christianity, an oratory is a room for prayer, from the Latin orare, to pray.In the Roman Catholic Church, an oratory is for all intents and purposes another word for what is commonly called a chapel....
 that has survived to the present day. Its iconography
Iconography

Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Ancient Greek e???? and ??afe?? ....
 is also important by virtue of its strongly anti-Arian
Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
 symbolism".