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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 ones on the arch include a version of the Flight into Egypt, and in the nave are Old Testament subjects, mainly from the Books of Exodus and Joshua, and despite extensive restoration and some losses they are the most important Early Christian narrative series extant.
The picture shows the mosaics on the triumphal arch.
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