# Apse: 5. Presentation in the Temple [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CAVALLINI, Pietro]() - Date: 1251-1300 - Technique: Mosaic ## Commentary Apse: 5. Presentation in the Temple 1296-1300 Mosaic Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome The fifth scene of the Mary cycle, the Presentation in the Temple, is in the apse. In this scene the architectural backdrops define the field of action for the figures and contribute materially to the structuring of the picture space. An altar together with its baldachin, stands between Mary and the aged Simeon, who cradles the Christ child in his arms. Similarly, architectural elements fill the intervals between the protagonists and the secondary figures, Joseph and the prophetess Anna. Typical of Cavallini's picture architecture is the change in perspective, especially the combination of views from above and below in one and the same structure. ## Related artworks - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Apse: 2. Annunciation]() - [Apse: 3. Nativity of Christ]() - [Apse: 4. Adoration of the Kings]() - [Apse: St Peter Recommending Bertoldo Stefanschi to the Virgin]() - [Apsidal arch: 1. Nativity of the Virgin]() - [Apsidal arch: 6. Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Dormition of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Esau Appears to Isaac \(fragment\)]() - [Interior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()