Sermon 34
Name of text: | Sermon 34 |
Author of text: | Leo VI |
Date of text: | 886-912 |
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Name of structure in text: | Unknown, built by Stylianus Zaoutzas |
Type of structure in text: | church |
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Country in text: | Asia Minor |
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City in text: | Constantinople |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | Dome, walls, arches |
Description of mosaic in text: | Christ Pantocrator, cherubim, seraphim,prophets, annunciation, nativity, adoration of the Magi, presentation in the temple, baptism, transfiguration, raising of Lazarus, crucifixion, burial, anastasis, ascension |
Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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Bibliography: | Leo VI, Sermon 34, in Cyril Mango, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972, repr. 1986), pp. 203-5 Frolow, A., ‘Deux eglises Byzantines d’apres des sermons peu connus de Leon VI le sage’, Etudes Byzantines 3 (1945), 43-49. |
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