Mosaics in the Northern Adriatic: Power, Beauty and Education

Nirvana Romell compares early Christian mosaics at Aquileia and Poreč as art, religious storytelling and evidence of cultural exchange.

Art historian Nirvana Romell looks beyond Ravenna to mosaics at Aquileia and Poreč on the Northern Adriatic coast. She considers how these works conveyed Christian teaching and story, while bearing witness to cultural exchange and power struggles in the first Christian millennium. The lecture starts at 11:00 in the Main Hall, with refreshments beforehand.