Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV
| Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV |
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| Date of person in text: | Pope Gregory IV 827-44 |
| Name of structure in text: | Old St. Peter's, Oratory of S. Gregory |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | Chapel and decoration attributed to Gregory IV 827-44 |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 9 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Apse |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Painted with gilded mosaic |
| Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV,, 6, ed. Duchesne, 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 pp. 302-3, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995), p. 51 |
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