Historia delle Stationi di Roma
Name of text: | Historia delle Stationi di Roma |
Author of text: | Pompey Ugonio |
Date of text: | 1588 |
Date of person in text: | 16th century |
Name of structure in text: | S. Martino ai Monti |
Type of structure in text: | Church |
Date of structure in text | 6th, 8th, 9th |
Century of structure 1: | 6 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: | Mosaic of the Tribune totally worn out. |
Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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Bibliography: | Ugonio, Pompey, Historia delle Stationi di Roma (Rome: 1588), fol. 253 verso, 255 recto, 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, 6.1/2 (1890), 1-9, see p. 3 |
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Comments: | Constructed by St. Symmachus c. 500 and restored by Hadrian I (772-95), adorned under Sergius II (844-47) and Leo IV (847-55), tribune with mosaics on gold ground. Church revamped in 1650.Dedicated to SS Silvestro e Martino. |