History of the Franks ?
| Name of text: | History of the Franks ? |
| Author of text: | Gregory of Tours |
| Date of text: | sixth century |
| Date of person in text: | 538-594 |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Gereon |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | sixth century? |
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| Country in text: | Germany |
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| City in text: | Cologne |
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| Description of mosaic in text: | The original decagon of the church of St. Gereon at Cologne was decorated with figures of saints in mosaic, according to Gregory of Tours. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | |
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| Bibliography: | Clemen, Paul, Die romanische Monumentalmalerei in den Rheinlanden (1916), quoted in Helen Woodruff, ‘The Iconography and Date of the Mosaics of La Daurade’, The Art Bulletin, 13.1 (1931), 80-104, p. 103 |
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