Torriti Jacopo, Motivi decorativi a girali e festoni vegetali
CODES / CLASSIFICATION
OBJECT
AUTHOR
Dating
sec. XIII, fine
1292 - 1296
LOCATIONS
Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore, Roma (Lazio, Italia)
catino absidale
RELATED ENTRIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Muñoz A., Roma di Dante, 1921, pp. 198-201
Matthiae G., Mosaici medievali delle chiese di Roma, 1967, pp. 355-364, tavv. 300, 301
NOTES
Foto INVN 8298, verso: nota anonima a penna: "Interesting to see how artists worked up from foliation and scrolls by / ceiling mosaics in S. Costanza (4th S.) through such [...] by foliage / symbol, bird and flower as you have in the inner border by the arch by / the [...] in S. Maria Trastevere and S. Clemente (12th S.) and this basic - ground in S. Maria Maggiore (Torriti - 1295) to the amazing exquisite / oriental imagination - [...] enrapturing congeries by scroll and / symbol in the borders and high vault round the Mystic lamb in / S. Vitale in Ravenna (in date falling between the two Roman extremes)"; timbro a inchiostro al centro: "Gift 4-10-46 / Mrs. Jas.G. MacLean"
