La Badiazza
Name of structure: | La Badiazza |
Extended name of structure: | La Badiazza/S. Maria della Valle/S. Maria della Scala |
Type of structure: | church |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Sicily |
City or area within region: | Near Messina |
Date of structure: | Founded in 12th C, and altered in 14th C. Now abandoned. |
Century of structure 1: | 12 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 14 AD |
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Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Head of Apostle. Now in Messina Museum |
Date of mosaic: | No evidence of date but probably 14th century??? |
Century of mosaic 1: | 14 AD |
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Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | |
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | E. Mauceri, Il Museo Nazionale di Messina (Rome: 1929), p. 20: D. Salazaro, Studi sui monumenti medievali della Sicilia (1877), p. 28. Otto Demus, Mosaics of Norman Sicily (London: Routledge, 1956), p. 187 |
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