mosaics and sculptures still visible in Rome. . Grafted onto this bucolic scene are explicitly Christian themes. The risen and regnant Christ is above the entire work, in a medallion over the highest point of the arch. It was built by the cardinal and priest of San Clemente, Anastasius, who is documented between 1102 and 1125, and it rises above its predecessors's centre and left side aisles. The vine is identified as the Church by an inscription along the band just above the sheep: Ecclesiam Christi viti similabimus isti de ligno crucis Jacobi dens, Ignatiiq[ue] insupra scripti requiescunt corpore Christi quam lex arentem, sed crux facit esse virentem, "We have likened the Church of Christ to this vine; the Law made it wither but the Cross made it bloom. In the body of Christ above this inscription rest [some] wood from the Cross, a tooth of James, and of Ignatius." Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The structure was completed and consecrated around 1118-19. Il Mosaico absidale della Basilica di San Clemente in Roma (di Andrea Coldani) Below the cherubs Early Christian church fathers teach and serve. It incorporated any number of familiar motifs from Early Christian mosaics, but combined them with distinctly medieval pictorial elements to create a new synthesis. Pilgrims still flowed into the city from all over Europe in recognition of Rome’s status as the home of the pope and the burial place of apostles and the Early Christian martyrs, but the city itself had shrunk dramatically inside the old Roman walls. Above the two towns are Isaiah (left side) and Jeremiah (right side) and two pairs of saints: St. Lawrence and St. Paul on the left, St. Clement and St. Peter on the right. Scoprite 2000 anni di storia quando visitate la Basilica di San Clemente! (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). To a medieval viewer, the ancient Roman heritage of the building would have been obvious, though today it has mostly been obscured by an exuberant eighteenth-century renovation. At the base, twelve sheep walk from miniature depictions of the walled cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem towards an apocalyptic lamb with a, On the spandrels of the arch, the prophets Saint Clement and Saint Lawrence and the apostles associated with Rome, Peter and Paul, wear the anachronistic uniform found in medieval depictions of holy figures: the, With the flanking figures, the mosaic argues that the Western Christian church, based in Rome, is more powerful than the secular forces that had recently sought to control it. It was also damaged by battles between the city’s most powerful families. The present church of San Clemente was constructed to replace the Early Christian basilica from the 4th century. 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Il mosaico di San Clemente Tornare a Roma è meglio di quando ci si va per la prima volta, perché si comincia ad andare nei posti meno affollati. ), and workshop, Miniature of Christ’s Side Wound and Instruments of the Passion from the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Four styles of English medieval architecture at Ely Cathedral, Porta Sant'Alipio Mosaic, Basilica San Marco, Venice, Spanish Gothic cathedrals, an introduction, By the twelfth century, the city of Rome was a shadow of its former, imperial Roman self. Romans were so proud of their city’s Christian past and current status as the capital of Western Christianity that these new buildings often closely copied the early churches they replaced. An interconnected world is not as recent as we think. We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free. The decoration of the church also looked back to earlier precedents. Rome was regularly sacked by invaders, including the Holy Roman Emperor, a northern noble supposedly appointed to protect Europe’s Christians. Discover 2000 years of history when you visit the Basilica of San Clemente. Both are presented as loci of historical events, not as heavenly idealizations. Ammirate gli spettacolari mosaici ed affreschi! But San Clemente's mosaic merges the iconography of Paradise with images of the Church in the contemporary world. III e una chiesa paleocristiana già citata da San Girolamo nel 385.

(Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007). Il mosaico absidale di San Clemente a Roma Se, provenendo dall'atrio, che con il suo colonnato e la fontana nel mezzo ci ricorda l'impianto dell'antica casa romana, entriamo nella chiesa romana di San Clemente, così ricca di The Basilica of San Clemente, located in the heart of medieval Rome, is an example of this faithful copying.

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