A reconstruction of the oratory of John VII (705–7)

Ballardini, Antonella; Pogliani, Paola

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“…The mosaicists who decorated the chapel of Mary that John VII installed in the south aisle of Saint Peter's, in c. 706, were as proficient in their craftas 'professional', as it wereas those who decorated the San Venanzio chapel at the Lateran and the chapel of SS. Primus and Felicianus at Santo Stefano Rotondo in the 640s (Ballardini and Pogliani, 2014). The creators of the new mosaics installed on the facade of the atrium of Saint Peter's under Sergius I (r.687-701), and of the extensive mosaic cycles installed in the Lateran palace under Zachary I (r.741-52), very probably also achieved similar results, though their work is lost (Liber Pontificalis I: 375 and 432, respectively).…”

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POLITICS, PATRONAGE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME, c. 650–750

Dey¹

2019

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Well into the seventh century, masons in Rome built bonded-masonry walls using materials and techniques directly descended from antiquity. But walls erected starting in the eighth century are very different and distinctively ‘medieval’. The late seventh / early eighth century therefore represents a moment of rapid transition or even rupture in the Roman building industry, when older ways of doing things ceased forever. Drawing on recently excavated structures on the Palatine and at San Paolo fuori le Mura that offer new insights into this crucial transitional period, I suggest that the break with centuries-old building traditions reflects a fundamental shift in mechanisms of patronage, and of control over the city's built environment. After a hiatus in the second half of the seventh century, when the Roman construction industry languished between a Byzantine administration in decline and a Church bureaucracy not yet empowered to supplant it, early eighth-century popes faced the challenge of creating anew the means and methods to build on a substantial scale. The newly excavated structures of the early eighth century offer an unexpected perspective on the growth of, and the growing pains experienced by, Rome's nascent papal government.

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POLITICS, PATRONAGE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME, c. 650–750

Dey¹

2019

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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“…9 Bibliography inNordhagen 1965,121-122. On the oratory and its decoration see nowBallardini and Pogliani 2013.…”

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The Case of the Missing Anastasis. An iconographical conundrum in the presbytery of S. Maria Antiqua

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Folgerø

2020

Classical Art and Archaeology

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In the present contribution, two authors approach a limited part of the iconography in the sanctuary of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome, painted during the pontificate of John VII (705-707 AD). Two different hypotheses will try to come closer to a solution of a problem concerning the Christ cycle on the sanctuary side walls, where Christ’s appearance to the Disciples on the Road to Emmaus is the concluding motif. This rather reasonable solution stands, however, in huge contrast to John’s Christ cycle in his oratory in Old Saint Peter’s Basilica which concludes with the ʽHarrowing of Hellʼ or Christ’s descent into Hades. Being a novelty, this, so called Anastasis-scene, where Christ liberates the prisoners of Hades, has a strong soteriological, or salvation historical, meaning. Anastasis, which, in fact, appears in two different locations in John’s rich assembly of motifs in S. Maria Antiqua, is wholly absent from the highly ʽcerebralʼ sanctuary iconography. Our two alternative solutions to this absence both include an Anastasis, either as a free hanging icon (Nordhagen), or as a motif included in the vast Adoration scene on the triumphal arch, here located below the Crucifixion on the steep Cliff of Golgotha (Folgerø).

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Eyewitness to Old St Peter's Basilica

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2019

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A reconstruction of the oratory of John VII (705–7)

Cited by 49 publications

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POLITICS, PATRONAGE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME, c. 650–750

POLITICS, PATRONAGE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME, c. 650–750

The Case of the Missing Anastasis. An iconographical conundrum in the presbytery of S. Maria Antiqua

Eyewitness to Old St Peter's Basilica

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