Tag Archives: Mosaics
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AGNESE AND COSTANZA
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inThis is a tour of a complex made of three churches, still well preserved and operating today, dedicated to two girls who lived in the early Christian times. It all started when saint Agnes was buried in a catacomb along via Nomentana, probably in the III century AD. In IV AD empress Constantina (or Constantia), […]
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PALAZZO MASSIMO
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inThis is part of the Roman National Archaeological Museum, one of the world’s leading museums of Ancient Art. On ground level and first floor it houses a prestigious collection of important statues such as the Discobolus Lancellotti (Discus Thrower), the Augustus via Labicana, the bronze Boxer, the General from Tivoli, the Dying Niobide (V BC), […]
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EARLY CHRISTIAN MOSAICS
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inA walk on the Esquiline hill to discover precious Early Christian Mosaics hidden in anonymous churches. Start at Santa Prassede to see colourful IX-century mosaics on the arches and the apse and a real pearl, the charming Chapel of San Zeno, also IX century, where walls and vault are all mosaic. Just across the street we […]
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UNDERGROUND TRASTEVERE
Posted on F j, Y by flavia inA walk in ancient Transtiberim to find out how much of it is still visible underground medieval churches. Excavations under the Basilica of San Crisogono reveal impressive remains of the early Christian church, built by the V century transforming a private house. The baptistry, the semicircular crypt with a fenestella confessionis and the stories of […]
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