Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV
| Name of text: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV |
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| Date of person in text: | Gregory IV, 827-44 |
| Name of structure in text: | Vatican, Oratory of S. Maria in Mediana/in Turri |
| Type of structure in text: | Chapel |
| Date of structure in text | constr by Paul I (757-67) restored by Innocent II (1130-43) |
| Century of structure 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 12 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Facade |
| Description of mosaic in text: | On the main façade of this church’s Paradise, on the mosaic, he decreed a very speedy painting and restoration of all that had been damaged from times of old on that wall. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Liber Pontificalis, in vita Gregorii IV, 34,ed. Duchesne, trans. by Raymond Davis, The Lives of the Ninth Century Popes (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995, p. 66 |
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| Comments: | Chapel constructed by Paul I (757-67) who did mosaics, and restored by Innocent II (1130-43). Diary of Antonio di Pietro tells us that the entire left side fell under the pontificate of John XXIII (1410-19). Muntz says facade destroyed in 1610. Church demolished at the end of the 17th C. Mosaic adorned the upper part of the façade and appears in drawings that accompany the mss. of the antiquarian Giacomo Grimaldi (lived early 17th C), apostolic notary and archivist of the basilica of S. Peter. |