Vita Basilii
| Name of text: | Vita Basilii |
| Author of text: | Anon |
| Date of text: | 10th century |
| Date of person in text: | ruled 866-886 |
| Name of structure in text: | Nea Ecclesia |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
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| Country in text: | Asia Minor |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | […] and built a Divine and exceedingly beautiful temple dedicated to them [Christ the Lord, archangel Michael, Elijah the Tishbite] and, to their everlasting memory, as well as to the Virgin and to Nicholas who holds the first rank among the hierarchs. […] The emperor offered this church to Christ, the immortal Bridegroom, as a bride decked out and adorned with pearls and gold and gleaming silver and, moreover, with a variety of many-coloured marbles, mosaic compositions and silken robes. The ceilings of that five-domed church glitter with gold and flash forth beautiful representations like stars … |
| Mosaic date in text: | 9 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati Nomine Fertur Liber quo Vita Basilii Imperatoris Amplectitur, trans by Ihor Šev?enko (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011), 83-84, pp. 272-75 Mango, Cyril, The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), p. 194 |
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