Historia delle Stationi di Roma

Name of text: Historia delle Stationi di Roma
Author of text: Ugonio Pompey
Date of text: 1588
Date of person in text: 16th C
Name of structure in text: S. Susanna
Type of structure in text: Church
Date of structure in text 4th, restored 795, remodelled in 15th and 16th C
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2: 16 AD
Country in text: Italy
Region in text: Lazio
City in text: Rome
Specific place of mosaic in text: Tribune/apse
Description of mosaic in text: Christ in centre, on the right hand Mary, Peter, Susanna, Pope Leo III [795-816] holding a church, on the left Paul, Pope Caius [uncle of Susanna], S. Gabinus [father of Susanna], Charlemagne
Mosaic date in text: 8 AD
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? No
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? No
Colour descriptions in text:
Bibliography:

Ugonio, Pompey, Historia delle Stationi di Roma (Rome: 1588), fol. 192 verso, 193 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. 8

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A vast mosaic of Christ flanked by Leo III [795-816], Charlemagne and Saints including Susanna (martyred 293) was so badly damaged in the 12th century by an earthquake, that the interior was plastered over in the complete renovation that spanned the years 1585–1602 and frescoed by Cesare Nebbia.

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