Color Plates

Jesus Christ as the Pantocrator

St. Vitale Church, Ravenna, Italy. Apse, mosaic. Early sixth century.

See Saving Paradise, 86, 111-113, 216, 217, 310.

“He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation…in him all things hold together… He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead.”  Colossians 1:15-18

Alternate images: St. Vitale complete apse, St Vitale chancel area