Leggenda di S. Daniele
| Name of text: | Leggenda di S. Daniele |
| Author of text: | Anonymous |
| Date of text: | 1075-1117 |
| Date of person in text: | |
| Name of structure in text: | S. Justine, Chapel of S. Prosdocimus |
| Type of structure in text: | chapel |
| Date of structure in text | 6th century |
| Century of structure 1: | 6 AD |
| Century of structure 2: | |
| Country in text: | Italy |
| Region in text: | Padua |
| City in text: | Padua |
| Specific place of mosaic in text: | Dome |
| Description of mosaic in text: | A whole cupola, resplendent thanks to the gold background and figures representing the heavenly palace and the green meadows of paradise. |
| Mosaic date in text: | 6 AD |
| Tesserae silver mentioned in text? | No |
| Tesserae gold mentioned in text? | Yes |
| Colour descriptions in text: | |
| Bibliography: | Text from the Leggenda di S. Daniele, reported in Dondi dall’Orologio (1816), and trans by Gabriel Walton, quoted in Alberta Silvestri, Serena Tonietto and Gianmario Molin, ‘The paleo-Christian glass mosaic of St. Prosdocimus (Padova, Italy): archaeometric characterisation of ‘gold’ tesserae’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (2011), 3402-3414, see p. 3403 |
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| Comments: | See entry under Structures |