Early Medieval Painting in S. Clemente, Rome: The Madonna and Child in the Niche
| Name of text: | Early Medieval Painting in S. Clemente, Rome: The Madonna and Child in the Niche |
| Author of text: | John L. Osborne |
| Date of text: | 1981 |
| Date of person in text: | 20th century |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Euphemia, Rome |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 676-678 |
| Century of structure 1: | 7 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Apse |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Euphenia in an orant position, with a jewelled head-covering |
| Mosaic date in text: | 7 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | Osborne, John L., ‘Early Medieval Painting in San Clemente, Rome: The Madonna and Child in the Niche’, Gesta, 20.2 (1981), 299-310, see p. 306 and nn. 55 and 56 S. Waetzoldt, Die Kopien des 17, Jahrhunderts nach Mosaiken und Wandmalereien in Rom (Vienna: 1964), 33 and fig. 42 |
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| Comments: | Church demolished late sixteenth century, but a drawing of the apse mosaic, which depicted Euphemia in an orant position, preserved in the Vatican Library (cod. Lat. 5407, p. 174). Church located in the vicus Patricius on the Esquiline Hill. |