Michele

Name of structure: Michele
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Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Italy
Region within country or main area: Lazio
City or area within region: Vico
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Specific place of mosaic: In chapel left of the choir
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Capocci Tabernacle panel, originally in S.Maria Maggiore, showing Giovani Giocomo Capocci and his wife Vinia. Moved in the mid eighteenth century 1740-50 by Don Pietro Paulo Nardini, conclavist of Cardinal Colonna.  Some fragments have ended up in Church of S. Mary and S. Nicholas in Wilton, Wiltshire, UK.
Date of mosaic: 1256
Century of mosaic 1: 13 AD
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Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
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Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Gardner, Julian, ‘The Capocci Tabernacle in Santa Maria Maggiore’, in Papers of the British School in Rome, 38 (1970), 220-30

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Comments: See also entries for S. Maria Maggiore, and Mary and Nicholas church in UK which contains fragments from this tomb

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