The Ravenna mosaics of 1112

The text is a Ukrainian translation of an article by Fedir Shmit (a specialist in the history of Byzantine and Rus’-Ukrainian art, historic preservation, and museum studies and theorist of art) on the Ravenna mosaics of 1112, which was published in 1914 in No. 7 of of the Lantern magazine. The author raises the question of the roots and historical classification of the Ravenna mosaics of 1112. Shmit provides a detailed analysis of the artistic features of the monument, considering it in the relevant temporal and geographical contexts. The scholar not only scrupulously describes the mosaics, but also makes a thorough historiographical review, considering all the pertinent studies of European researchers at the time. Fedir Shmit argues that the Ravenna mosaics of 1112 are Byzantine in style and technique since the essence of an artistic work lies in its style and technique, not in its plots and iconography.