Spicilegium Romanum
Name of text: | Spicilegium Romanum |
Author of text: | Onofrio Panvinio |
Date of text: | 16th century |
Date of person in text: | 1529-1568 |
Name of structure in text: | Old St. Peter's, Oratory of the Virgin |
Type of structure in text: | chapel |
Date of structure in text | Constructed by Pope Gregory III (731-741) |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 8 AD |
Country in text: | Italy |
Region in text: | Lazio |
City in text: | Rome |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | archways |
Description of mosaic in text: | adorned by beautiful mosaic figures |
Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | Yes |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Panvinio, Onofrio, apud Mai, Spicilegium Romanum, t. ix, p. 42, quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Rome IV to IX Century’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 2.3 (1886), 295-313, see p. 299 |
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