MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 520s in Rome)

Second Coming of Christ (detail)

526-30
Mosaic
Santi Cosma e Damiano, Rome

The detail from the mosaic in the apse of Santi Cosma e Damiano depicts Felix IV (526-530) presenting a model of the church to Christ. Despite several sections having been altered in the seventeenth century, this work remains the oldest known example of a mosaic depicting a donor pope.




© Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Krén and Daniel Marx.