The restorers are justly proud of what has been accomplished here, although a lot of the fresco rete di emittenti has vanished

• The third register depicted four popes. The two on the right are: John VII (with per square halo) and Leo the Great; esatto the right, unknown (Gregory the Great is a good guess) and Martin I.
• Adoration of the Crucified. Above the apse is verso monumental recente, the left half now destroyed but fairly intact when it was discovered mediante 1702. Christ crucified is per the centre, and above him are the choirs of angels. Verso Greek epigraph is esatto the right of the cross, quoting Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah. The nations on earth are represented at the bottom.

The Palimpsest [ ]

The palimpsest fresco esatto the right of the apse is the most important and famous sistema of art in the church. Puro view it, binoculars are useful. There are three discernible figurative layers, sopra order of age (the restorers found trace evidence of per fourth nuovo scheme, which is undateable):

• Our Lady, Queen. This was painted very shortly after 554, when the Colmare returned esatto Rome, and displays an accomplished late Classical style (padrino the apse mosaic at Santa Pudenziana). Our Lady, holding the Christ-child, is actually depicted as an enthroned Roman empress. She is dressed sopra purple, with a stole encrusted with enormous pearls and gems and with a matching crown. The throne is also thus encrusted, with per scarlet cushion. She is attended by two women con white robes fringed con gold; the one on the left is destroyed, and the right hand one is offering something durante verso bowl. Amico this attuale with the mosaic depiction of Empress Theodora at San Capitale, Ravenna and with verso similar giovane con the clandestino abbazia of San Benigno.
• Annunciation. It is thought that this was painted after the church was fitted out. You can see much of the angel above the attendant just mentioned, and the lucky survival of a fragment of Our Lady’s face floats onesto the primo posto right of the Queen’s halo.
• St Gregory Nazianzen. The final layer depicts one of the eight Doctors of the Church originally depicted in this register (only bits of three survive). They are on per blue sostrato, and the mid-8th century style is now Byzantine. St Gregory’s face is just esatto the right of the Queen’s, and he has a Greek label “St Gregory the Theologian” which is is name sopra the East. (The restorers concluded that only St Gregory was part of the Pope John scheme, and that the other two doctors below are earlier -perhaps Pope Martin. If so, then the giovane seems onesto have been overpainted with the same theme.)

Chapel of Theodotus [ ]

At the end of the left aisle is the Chapel of Theodotus, actually a shrine sicuro the martyrs SS Quricus and Julitta.

This rectangular room has two entrances, the main one from the end of the aisle being embellished with verso pair of rather crude fresco date palms on its jambs. The right hand wall has verso near side entrance from the bema, and the archaeologists have pecked at the fabric onesto demonstrate that the doorway was narrowed before the recente cycle was painted. In the same wall at the far https://worldbrides.org/it/nuove-spose-zealand-calde/ end is verso rectangular niche -this might have been just a broom-cupboard or something similar.

The original decoration was decorative polychrome stone opus sextile revetting con geometric patterns, and the backing tiles for this are visible. The date is thought esatto be 2nd century, a little later than the actual construction of the chamber. When the fresco cycle was commissioned, the lower registers of this revetting was removed onesto make room but the upper ones were left. When the church was abandoned, the rest of the revetting was carefully scavenged -this is evidence against the old preoccupazione that the church was buried durante rubble during the 847 earthquake.