De Basilica et Patriarchio Lateranensi
| Name of text: | De Basilica et Patriarchio Lateranensi |
| Author of text: | Caesar Rasponi |
| Date of text: | 1657 |
| Date of person in text: | 1615-75 |
| Name of structure in text: | Lateran, Oratory of the Holy Cross |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | Built by Pope Hilarius 461-68, Lateran 4th,10th, 14th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 4 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | 14 AD |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Roof and vaults |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Elegant golden mosaic in the vaults of the roof, and in the four corners angels who hold up a huge cross. arch over, little below the vault four very large windows, and in the interstices [small spaces] mosaic work of the Holy. Apostles Peter and Paul, S. John the Evangelist, S. John the Baptist, SS. Stephen, Lawrence and the martyrs, as well as the images of James and Philip badly damaged. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 5 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
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| Bibliography: | Caesar Rasponi, Caesar, De Basilica et Patriarchio Lateranensi: Libri Quatuor (Rome: Lazzeris, 1657), p. 232, quoted in Eugene Muntz, ‘The Lost Mosaics of Rome IV to IX Century’, The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 2.3 (1886), 295-313, see p. 306 |
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| Comments: | This oratory was destroyed at the time of the last restoration of the Lateran under Sixtus V (1585-90). |