Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis IV
| Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis IV |
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| Date of person in text: | Pope Leo IV 847-855 |
| Name of structure in text: | Old St. Peter's, Oratory of S. Leo |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | 847-855 |
| 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: | ... he gloriously adorned its apse in mosaic with gold colour overlaid |
| 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 Leonis IV, 31, 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. 304-5, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Ninth-Century Popes (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995), p. 123 |
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