Vit Stephen the Younger
| Name of text: | Vit Stephen the Younger |
| Author of text: | Stephen the Deacon |
| Date of text: | 806 |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | Blachernae |
| Type of structure in text: | church |
| Date of structure in text | 6 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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| Country in text: | Asia Minor |
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| City in text: | Constantinople |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
| Description of mosaic in text: | trees and all species of birds, animals and circles with lily leaves, cranes, crows and peacocks |
| Mosaic date in text: | 8 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | Stephen the Deacon, Life of Stephen the Younger, quoted in R. Janin, La Géographie Ecclésiastique de L’Empire Byzantin: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Ecuménique, (Paris: Institut Français d’Études Byzantines, 1953), 3 vols,vol. 3 Les Églises et les Monastères, p. 175 |
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| Comments: | According to Janin, on the walls, painted or represented in mosaic, were the miracles of Our Lord and many episodes from his life up until his ascension. Constantine V [741-775] there substituted mosaics representing ‘trees and all species of birds, animals and circles with lily leaves, cranes, crows and peacocks’. It is certain that these figures, little in harmony with the Christian religion, were not replaced by religions tableaux after the restoration of the cult of images [after the period of iconoclasm]. |