Letter to Charlemagne
| Name of text: | Letter to Charlemagne |
| Author of text: | Pope Hadrian I |
| Date of text: | 8th Century |
| Date of person in text: | Hadrian I 700-795, pope 775-795, Charlemagne 742-814 |
| Name of structure in text: | Holy Apostles, Rome |
| Type of structure in text: | Church |
| Date of structure in text | 555-74 |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
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| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Lazio |
| City in text: | Rome |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | |
| Description of mosaic in text: | Pope Pelagius [555-61] as well as Pope John [III, 561-74] built a church of wonderful size to show the different histories of the apostles, both in mosaic and paint in a variety of colours with sacred images, which from then until today are worshipped. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | No |
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| Bibliography: | Labbe, Philippe and Gabriel Cossarti, eds, Sacrosancta Conciliaad regiam editionem exacta(Venice: 1729), vol. 8, p. 1553 et seq., 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 pp. 312-3 |
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