Vitae episcoporum ecclesiae Hieracensis
| Name of text: | Vitae episcoporum ecclesiae Hieracensis |
| Author of text: | Ottaviano Pasqua |
| Date of text: | Author Bishop of Gerace 1574-91 but text not published until 1755 |
| Date of person in text: | Sixteenth century |
| Name of structure in text: | Gerace Cathedral |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | Consecrated 1045 |
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| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Calabria |
| City in text: | Gerace |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Wall near altar of S. Salvatore |
| Description of mosaic in text: | […] in the cathedral, near the altar of the Santissimo Salvatore one may still admire a mosaic in which are depicted, in poses of devotion, on the right Leontius (Leontius II bishop of Gerace from c. 1124-1144) and on the left Roger (Roger II 1095-1154). The former [is shown] with a gold mitre and cope, the other with a gold crown on his head, the royal sceptre in his hand and clothes covered with gold lilies. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 12 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | O. Pasqua, Vitae episcoporum ecclesiae Hieracensis, ed. G. A. Parlà, in Constitutiones et acta Synody Hieracensis ab ilustrissimo et revendissimo domino Caesare Rossi Episcopo celebratae diebus 10, 11 et 12 Novembris 1754 (Naples, 1755), quoted in Mark J. Johnson, The Lost Royal Portraits of Gerace and Cefalù Cathedrals’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 53 (1999), 237-262, see p. 238 |
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| Comments: | Description confirmed by Giovanni Fiore, Della Calabria illustrate (Naples, 1748; repr. Sala Bolognese, 1974), p. 305, quoted in Mark J. Johnson, The Lost Royal Portraits of Gerace and Cefalù Cathedrals’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 53 (1999), 237-262, see p. 239 |