Monday, 19 February 2007

Spolia: the cosmati floor of San Crisogono, Rome


San Crisogono in Trastevere (which is the oldest public place of christian worship in Rome) posseses, in addition to two fine porphyry columns flanking the apse, this splendid example of a floor created from the fragments of antique coloured marble columns and facings.

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