Matteo

Name of structure: Matteo
Extended name of structure:

Duomo di Salerno
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Campania
City or area within region: Salerno
Date of structure:

11C-12C, 20C.
Century of structure 1: 11 AD
Century of structure 2: 20 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Apse; apse arch; south side apse; west wall; two ambos; lunette above main entrance; fragments in the Cathedral Museum.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Main apse: Virgin, angels, donors, bishops.
Apse arch: St John and St Matthew symbols, remains of St Mark and St Luke, flora, geometrical pattern.
South apse: St Matthew, St Michael, saints, donor.
Ambo: The ambo to the north (by Romualdo II Guara) was remade after 1730 with residual mosaics. The one to the south has original mosaics of 12C (Marchese & Garzillo, 1984).
Lunette: St Matthew.
Date of mosaic:

Lunette, south apse: 13C
Main apse: 1947-54
Apse arch: 12C. Earthquake damage revealed two walled-up single narrow windows [monophores] on the walls around the main apse which are throws doubt on an 11C date of the remaining mosaics (Marchese & Garzillo, 1984).
North and south apses: c. 1260
Century of mosaic 1: 12 AD
Century of mosaic 2: 20 AD
Silver tessera at site: Unknown
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? Unknown
Has analysis been done? Yes
Samples taken from where? 14 tesserae of those kept in the Cathedral Museum (Marchese and Garzillo (1984).
Excavation and restoration campaigns: 1930s, 1980s (after earthquake)
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Marchese, B. & Garzillo, V., 'An investigation of the mosaics in the Cathedral of Salerno. Part II. Characterization of some mosaic tesserae', Studies in Conservation 29/1 (1984), 10-6.


Marchese, B. & Garzillo, V., 'An investigation of the mosaics in the Cathedral of Salerno. Part I. Characterization of binding materials', Studies in Conservation 28/3 (1983), 127-32.


Kitzinger, E. 'The first mosaic decoration of Salerno Cathedral', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 21 (1972), 149-62.
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