De Neon, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 28
Name of text: | De Neon, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis, ch. 28 |
Author of text: | Agnellus of Ravenna |
Date of text: | 831-846 |
Date of person in text: | b. 794-804, d. after 846 |
Name of structure in text: | Ursiana Church |
Type of structure in text: | church |
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Country in text: | Italy |
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City in text: | Ravenna |
Specific place of mosaic in text: | vault |
Description of mosaic in text: | He decorated the baptistries of the Ursiana church most beautifully: he set up in mosaic and gold tesserae the images of the apostles and their names in the vault, he girded the side-walls with different types of stones. |
Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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Bibliography: | For translation see Agnellus of Ravenna, The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna, trans. by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004), p. 125 |
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