MOSAIC ARTIST, Italian
(active 7th century in Rome)

Apse decoration

630s
Mosaic
Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, Rome

The apse mosaic was completed under Pope Honorius I and depicts St Agnes wearing regal vestments, holding a scroll sealed with a cross, and standing on a platform surrounded by flames. She is flanked by popes Symmachus and Honorius I, the latter holding a model of the church and to whom there is a dedicatory inscription beneath.




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