Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III
Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III |
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Date of person in text: | Pope Leo III (795-816) |
Name of structure in text: | Vatican, Oratory of the Holy Cross |
Type of structure in text: | chapel |
Date of structure in text | 795-816 |
Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
Country in text: | Italy |
Region in text: | Lazio |
City in text: | Rome |
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Description of mosaic in text: | He [Leo III] decorated this apse with mosaics, various pictures and marble, adorning it with wondrous brightness. |
Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Leonis III, ed. Duchesne,trans. by Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Eighth-Century Popes (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1992), p. 207 |
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