Lost mosaics and frescoes of Rome of the mediaeval period; a publication of drawings contained in the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo, now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (1915)
Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955 · Princeton, N.J., Princeton university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 71
I (707-708). In the ninth century the cult grew apace, and several sanctuaries appear to have been dedicated to the "doctor saints," or to Abbacyrus alone, who tended to out- strip his companion in the popular veneration. There is a striking- bust of Abbacyrus among the frescoes of S. Maria Antiqua… … Fie. 13. Drawing of the upper fresco in the apse of S. Passera. About the time this fresco was painted the Abbacyrus cult in Rome experienced a renaissance. A church was built in honor of the martyr in the Forum of Trajan, and it was at this time that the lower church of S. Passera assumed its…
Windsor Castle. Royal Library · Church decoration and ornament · Mosaics
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