Eufrasius

Name of structure: Eufrasius
Extended name of structure: Basilica Eufrasiana
Type of structure: Church
Country or main area: Croatia
Region within country or main area: Istria
City or area within region: Poreč
Date of structure:

539-60


 
Century of structure 1: 6 AD
Century of structure 2: 6 AD
Specific place of mosaic: Apse semi-dome and walls; vault; triumphal arch; north and south apses; ciborium; external facade.
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic:

Semi dome apse: Virgin with Christ child enthroned, archangels, saints, child Eufrasius, Bishop Eufrasius, Claudius, Maurus, flora. Apse walls: Annunciation, Zaccharias, Angel, John the Baptist, Visitation scene, shells, geometrical patterns. 
Vault: saints, inscription, Lamb of God.
Triumphal arch: Christ on Globe, 12 Apostles.
North apse: Christ, St Cosmas, St Damian, flora. 
South apse: Christ, St Severus, unknown saint, flora.
Ciborium: Vault: starry sky; facade: Annunciation, two saints on each of other three sides, inscription.
External facade: originally on both east and west facade. West: 4 saints, candelabre, east: patches.


 
Date of mosaic: Wall mosaics: 543-53; ciborium: 1277; facade 6C.
Century of mosaic 1: 6 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: Yes
Colour tessera at site: Yes
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? Unknown
Has analysis been done? No
Samples taken from where? n/a
Excavation and restoration campaigns:

Wall mosaics:
18C, 1846, 1885-90 and  
1896-98: team led by P. Bornia
2006 team led by I. Matejicic
Ciborium:
1895-96: team led by P. Bornia
Facade: 19C


 
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Terry, A. and Maguire, H., Dynamic Splendor. The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec (Penn State, 2007).


Bernardi, G., I mosaici della basilica eufrasiana di Parenzo: documenti per la storia dei restauri (1862 - 1916) (Fiume: Unione Italiana; Trieste: Università Popolare, 2006).


Prelog, M., La Basilica Eufrasiana a Parenzo (Zagreb: Buvina: Laurana, 2004).


Terry, A. & Maguire, H., 'The wall mosaics of the cathedral of Eufrasius in Porec: third preliminary report', Hortus Artium Medievalium: Journal of the International Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages 7 (2001), 131-66.


Terry, A. & Maguire, H., 'The wall mosaics of the cathedral of Eufrasius in Porec: second preliminary report', Hortus Artium Medievalium: Journal of the International Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages 6 (2000), 159-81.

The preliminary reports by Terry and Maguire are also on: http://nic kerson.icomos.org/euf/


Nickerson, S., Recording the EUFRASIAN APSE MOSAICS (1997). On tp://nicke rson.icomos.org/euf/

Nickerson, S., A Database for the Long Term.  On http://nickers on.icomos.org/euf/


Terry, A. & Maguire, H., 'The wall mosaics at the cathedral of Eufrasius in Poreč: a preliminary report', Hortus Artium Medievalium: Journal of the International Research Center for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages 4 (1998), 199-221.


Terry, A. & Muhlstein, T., 'New Documentary Evidence for the Restoration of the Sixth-Century Wall Mosaics at the Eufrasiana in Porec', in Acta XIII Congressus Internationalis Archaeologiae Christianae, Split-Poreč (25 Sept-1 Oct, 1994), Vol 2, (Vatican and Split, 1998), 1047-74. Also online: http://nic kerson.icomos.org/euf/


Demus, O., 'The ciborium mosaics of Parenzo', The Burlington Magazine  87/510 (1945), 238-45.
URLs: Centro Internazionale di Documentazione sul Mosaico (CIDM) website has database with further information about the history of the monument http://www.mosaicocidm.it/Mosaico/, as has Terry and Maguire (2007)
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