GALLA PLACIDIA

gălˈə pləsĭdˈēə, c.388–450, Roman empress of the West, daughter of Theodosius I. Captured by Alaric I in the course of his Italian campaign, she was held by the Visigoths as a hostage and married (414) Alaric's successor Ataulf. After the murder (415) of Ataulf she was at first ill-treated but was returned in 416 to her brother Honorius. In 417 she married the general Constantius; shortly before his death he was made (421) coemperor as Constantius III. In 423 she quarreled with Honorius and fled to the court of Theodosius II; after the death of Honorius she became regent for her son Valentinian III, whom Theodosius placed on the throne after overthrowing (425) the usurper John. She had great personal influence over her son, but she was forced to leave the government largely in the hands of Aetius.

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books on: Galla Placidia  - 194 results

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The Story of Ravenna
Book by Edward Hutton, Harald Sund; J. M. Dent & sons, ltd. ; E. P. Dutton & co., 1926
Subjects: Architecture--Italy--Ravenna, Ravenna (Italy)--History
...Ravenna -ii- Alinari MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA The Story of Ravenna by Edward...upon Ravexna -- Honorius and Galla Placidia 35...Battista, and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia 182...
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Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire
Book by John Michael O'Flynn; University of Alberta Press, 1983
Subjects: Generals--Rome--Political Activity, Rome--History--Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th Centuries, Rome--Politics And Government--284-476
...contemplating a marriage for his son with Galla Placidia, daughter of the same Theodosius...the marriage of Eucherius and Galla Placidia, which Claudian hints at in 400...progeny, and he would be married to Galla Placidia when the time seemed judicious...
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Women's Influence on Classical Civilization
Book by Fiona Mchardy, Eireann Marshall; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Civilization, Classical, Women--Greece, Women--History--To 500, Women--Rome
...EIREANN MARSHALL 127 9 Galla Placidia: conduit of culture? MARY...Harlows chapter which shows how Galla Placidia was thought to have influenced...shows him to be a weak man. As Galla Placidia was a central figure in late antique...
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Ravenna: A Study
Book by Edward Hutton; J.M. Dent, 1913
Subjects: Architecture--Italy--Ravenna, Ravenna (Italy)--History
...Honorius and Galla Placidia...Battista, and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia...THE MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA 178...
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A History of Art - Vol. 2
Book by G. Carotti, Beryl De Zoete; E.P. Dutton, 1909
Subjects: Art--History
...Interior of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia 50...Mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia 52...59. Diptych of Galla Placidia ? Monza. Treasure of Duomo...
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journal articles on: Galla Placidia  - 6 results

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Letters
Journal article; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
...of the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Of the several buildings adduced...referred to as the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia receives the most attention. She...qualification, as the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Her basis for this is given in...
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Fighting Identity: Why We Are Losing Our Wars
Journal article by Michael Vlahos; Military Review, Vol. 87, 2007
Subjects: Armed forces, Centuries, Religion, Tax revenues, War
...their strength, the Goths soon take on the imperial state itself. Rome contains them only when the emperors sister, Galla Placidia, weds the Gothic leader and Visigoths are made Roman in Aquitaine.1 Nine centuries later. A wholly extravagant man...
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Women of Byzantium
Journal article by Warren Treadgold; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Women of Byzantium (Book)--Book reviews
...250-500)," St. Gregory of Nyssas sister, Macrina, exemplifies a female ascetic, the abbess Egeria a female pilgrim, and Galla Placidia an empress. In part two, "Early Byzantium (500-843)," the author treats "women at risk" through the repentant harlot...
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Walking on Water: Cosmic Floors in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Journal article by Fabio Barry; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Memorials & monuments, Mosques & temples, Religion
...Moreover, it was with this very biblical event in mind that a ninth-century chronicler would have us believe that Galla Placidia, after a shipwreck in 424, built a new church to Saint John the Evangelist in Ravenna. Below mosaics depicting her...
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Survival of Early Christian Symbolism in Monastic Churches of New Spain and Visions of the Millennial Kingdom
Journal article by Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Architectural design--Religious aspects, Christian art and symbolism--United States, Christian art--United States, Christian symbolism--United States, Church buildings--Design and construction, Churches--Design and construction, Dominicans, Franciscans, Indigenous peoples--Religious aspects, Monasteries--Design and construction, Monasticism and religious orders--United States, Religious orders (Christian)--United States, United States--Religious aspects
...painted blue with gold stars like the early Christian martyrium of St. Lawrence in Ravenna (misidentified as the tomb of Galla Placidia). In this case the four pillars that uphold the dome are aligned against the wall (fig. 26). ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
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magazine articles on: Galla Placidia  - 3 results

 
 
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Christ and the Art of Agony
Magazine article by Nigel Spivey; History Today, Vol. 49, August 1999
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism--History, Christianity--History, Martyrdom--History, Rome (Ancient)--History
...graphically picked out by the mosaicist in trails of blood. To compare: from the chapel-mausoleum of the Roman empress Galla Placidia at Ravenna, a lunette composition presumed to show the martyrdom of St Lawrence. The instrument of the martyrs death...
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The Road from Ravenna: In the Footsteps of the Last Roman Emperor
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 298, September 2006
Subjects: Caesar, Julius--Political activity, Ravenna, Italy--Description and travel, Ravenna, Italy--Political aspects, Roman emperors--Political activity
...remotely self-aware.) He would also have known the small, cross-shaped Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Daughter of one emperor, half sister of another, Galla Placidia played the role of the colored cloth in a game of diplomatic and matrimonial Capture...
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The Battle of Chalons: In Confronting the Huns under Attila, the Man Known as "The Last Roman" Led the Remnant Forces of Western Civilization against the Rampaging Barbarian Horde
Magazine article by Charles Scaliger; The New American, Vol. 23, July 9, 2007
Subjects: Aetius, Flavius--History, Battle of Chalons, 451--History, Goths (Germanic people)--History, Huns--History
...was the general Flavius Aetius, sometime aspirant to the throne, who, under the patronage of the Roman queen-regent Galla Placidia, had risen to the office of magister militum, or supreme commander of the military forces in the West. Nicknamed...


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newspaper articles on: Galla Placidia  - 2 results

 
 
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A Reverence for History's Art; Ravenna, Italy's Famed Mosaics Dazzle as They Cross Centuries
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 27, 2007
...being the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, which shares the same parklike...peninsula. Honorius sister was Galla Placidia (A.D. 386 to 450), daughter of...it often has been claimed that Galla Placidias remains were placed in a sarcophagus...
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6 THINGS YOU MUST DO IN... RAVENNA; VIVID: The Mosaic-Clad Interior of the Church of San Vitale. Right: Lord Byron
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 19, 2008
...ticket (about ?6.50).. Next door to San Vitale are the earliest of the towns mosaics, in the simple brick Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (sister of Roman emperor Honorius), built around 450AD. Star exhibit at the towns museum (Museo Arcivesovile) is the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Galla Placidia  - 9 results

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Galla Placidia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GALLA PLACIDIA gal pl sid e , c.388 450, Roman empress of the West, daughter of Theodosius I. Captured by Alaric I in the course of his Italian...
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Placidia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PLACIDIA Roman empress: see Galla Placidia . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Constantius III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the hand of Honorius sister Galla Placidia , he vied with his rival, Ataulf...after Ataulfs marriage (414) to Galla Placidia. In 416, after Ataulf was assassinated...Wallia, and in 417 he married Galla Placidia. He was the prime mover in granting...
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Aetius , Roman General
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...454, Roman general. At first unfriendly to Valentinian III , he later made his peace with Valentinians mother, Galla Placidia , and was given a command in Gaul. An ambitious general, he was embroiled in difficulties with his rival Boniface...
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Boniface
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...against the Visigoths under Ataulf. Having supported Galla Placidia in her struggle with her brother, Emperor Honorius...Beaten again in 431, Boniface was recalled to Italy by Placidia to assist her against the general Aetius . He defeated...
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