Michele
Name of structure: | Michele |
Extended name of structure: | |
Type of structure: | Church |
Country or main area: | Italy |
Region within country or main area: | Lazio |
City or area within region: | Vico |
Date of structure: | |
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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 |
Century of mosaic 2: | |
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? | |
Samples taken from where? | |
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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 |