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This city is home to an artwork in which a green-robed personification of the Jordan River crowned with crayfish claws sits next to Jesus while a dove sprays water from above, depicting Jesus’s baptism. This city’s Neonian Baptistery is often called the Orthodox Baptistery (10[1])to distinguish it from the nearby, similarly designed Arian Baptistery. Two mosaic lunettes, one of the Good Shepherd (10[1])and one likely depicting either Saint Lawrence or Saint Vincent, adorn a building in this city that doesn’t actually house its namesake, (10[1])the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia. (10[3])The Basilica (10[2])of Sant’Apollinare (10[2])Nuovo (10[1])is the last remaining part of Theodoric the Great’s palace in this city. (10[1])For 10 points, the Basilica of San (10[2])Vitale (10[3])contains mosaics (10[1])depicting Justinian (10[1])and Theodora (10[1])in what northern (10[1])Italian city? ■END■ (10[1])

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