MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 430s in Rome)

Crossing of the Red Sea

432-40
Mosaic
Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

The decoration of the Early Christian churches, and particularly of the basilicas, was mostly with mosaics. The largest series of early mosaic decorations in Rome are the panels on the triumphal arch and the nave walls of Santa Maria Maggiore of c. 432-40.

The picture shows an Old Testament scene on the nave: the Crossing of the Red Sea.




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