MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 520s in Rome)

Second Coming of Christ (detail)

526-30
Mosaic
Basilica di Santi Cosma e Damiano, Rome

The pictorial motif of the Lamb of God, popular in the founding years of Christianity, was also widespread in the following centuries, as can be seen in this mosaic from the apse of Santi Cosma e Damiano from the first half of the sixth century.




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