MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 5th century in Rome)

Apse decoration (detail)

5th century
Mosaic
San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome

This detail of the apse mosaic with a half-portrait is a copy from the nineteenth century. It is the only surviving trace of the original decoration for the apse from the fourth and fifth centuries.




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