MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 380-400 century in Rome)

Apse mosaic (detail)

380-400
Mosaic
Santa Pudenziana, Rome

The detail shows the right part of the apse mosaic.

On Christ's left is St Peter. The woman behind him represents 'Ecclesia ex circumcisione', since this was the Jewish people taught by Christ himself, and the first mission field of the Apostles, except St Paul.




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