Old St. Peters
| Name of structure: | Old St. Peters |
| Extended name of structure: | |
| Type of structure: | Church |
| Country or main area: | Italy |
| Region within country or main area: | Lazio |
| City or area within region: | Rome |
| Date of structure: | 4C, 13C |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 13 AD |
| Specific place of mosaic: | See 'Brief descriptive contents of mosaic'. |
| Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: | Vatican Grottos/Necropolis: Christ Pantokrator (8C); S. Peter (from S. Paolo fuori le Mura); Pope Innocent III (12C-13C); phoenix; Pope John VII (8C-from Oratory of Pope John VII); washing of Christ child (8C-from Oratory of Pope John VII); Christ entry to Jerusalem (8C-from Oratory of Pope John VII); angel (from the Navicella mosaic). Tomb of Julii/Mausoleum M: Christ on Chariot; Jonah and the ship; fisherman (all 4C). Tomb of Marcii: panel with death of Pentheus (3rd C) Atrium of S. Peter: Navicella mosaic (1305-13). Museo di Roma: Pope Gregory IX (13C-from facade) Vatican Pinacoteca: male head of S. Luke (?) (13C-from facade) Museo Barracco: 'L'Ecclesia Romana' (12C) Boville Ernica, Church of S. Pitro Ispano: angel (13C-from Navicella mosaic) Florence, S. Marco: Orant Virgin (8C-from Oratory of Pope John VII). Orte, Museum Diocesano: Virgin (8C-from Nativity scene in Oratory of Pope John VII). Pushkin Museum, Moscow: Christ child (from the funerary monument of Pope Boniface VIII (1235–1303)); Joseph (8C-from Nativity scene in Oratory of Pope John VII). Brooklyn Museum: head of the Virgin (from the funerary monument of Pope Boniface VIII (1235–1303)). Sacristy (now a gift shop) of S. Maria de Cosmedin, Rome: fragment of Epiphany mosaic dd. 706 (from the Oratory of John VII) |
| Date of mosaic: | See 'Brief descriptive contents of mosaic' |
| Century of mosaic 1: | 8 AD |
| Century of mosaic 2: | |
| Silver tessera at site: | Yes |
| Gold tessera at site: | Yes |
| Colour tessera at site: | Yes |
| Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)? | no |
| Has analysis been done? | No |
| Samples taken from where? | n/a |
| Excavation and restoration campaigns: | 1939-49: Vatican-led archaeological team overseen by Monsignor Ludwig Kaas |
| Bibliography of mainly technical resources: | van Dijk, A., ‘The afterlife of an early medieval chapel: Giovanni Battista Ricci and perceptions of the Christian past in post-Tridentine Rome’, Renaissance Studies 19/5 (2005), 686-98. (For the Oratory of John VII). Pogliani, P., ‘Le campiture cromatiche. Un caso esemplare: I frammenti musivi dell’Oratorio di Giovanni VII (705-707) Dall’antica basilica di San Pietro’, in Atti del convegno di studi di Scienza e Beni Culturali 18, 2002: I mosaici. Cultura, Tecnologia, Conservazione (Bressanone, 2-5 luglio, 2002), ed by G. Biscontin & G. Driussi (Venice: Edizioni Arcadia Ricerche, 2002), 59-68. van Dijk, A., ‘Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, and Constantinople: the Peter Cycle in the Oratory of Pope John VII (705-707)’, DOP 55 (2001), 305-28. Andaloro, M. et al. (eds.), Fragmenta picta: affreschi e mosaici staccati del Medioevo romano (Roma, Castel Sant'Angelo, 15 dicembre 1989-18 febbraio 1990), (Rome: Àrgos, 1989): Tomei, A., 'Un frammento ritrovato dal mosaico del monumento di Bonifacio VIII in S. Pietro', Arte Medievale 10 (1996), 123-31. Mancinelle, F., 'Arte bizantina, medievale e moderna: relazione del Reparto (1975-1983),' Monumenti, musei, e galleriepontificie. Bolletino 9 (1989), 355. (St Luke (?) head) Nordhagen, J. P., ''The mosaics of John VII (705-707). The mosaic fragments and their technique', Acta ad archeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia 2 (1965), 121-66. Perler, O., Die Mosaiken der Juliergruft in Vatikan (Freiburg, 1953). Apollonij Ghetti, B. M., Ferrua, A., Josi, E.. & Kirschbaum, E., Esplorazioni sotto la confessione di S. Pietro in Vaticano eseguite negli anni 1940-1949 (Città del Vaticano, 1951). For Tomb of Julii: 32-42. Arslan, W., 'Un frammento dell'antico mosaico absidale Vaticano', Dedalo 7 (1924-26), 754-62. Bartoli, A., 'Un frammento inedito dei musaici vaticano di Giovanni VII', Bollettino d'arte 1 (1907), 22-3. Krautheimer, R., Corbett, S., Frankl, S. & Frazer, A. K., Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae (Monumenti di antichità cristiana pubblicati dal Pontificio Instituto di Archeologia Cristiana) (Vatican City, New York, 1937-80), 6 vols: vol. 5. O'Callaghan, R. T., ‘Vatican Excavations and the Tomb of Peter’, The Biblical Archaeologist 16/4 ( 1953) 70-87. Apollonj, M., Ferrua, A., Josi, E. Kirschbaum, E.(eds.), Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione de San Pietro in Vaticano (Vatican City, 1951), 2 vols. O'Callaghan, R. T., ‘Recent Excavations underneath the Vatican Crypts’, The Biblical Archaeologist 12 /1 (1949), 1-23. |
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