# Three Messengers

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ROMANESQUE PAINTER, Italian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1>)
- Date: 1201-1250
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The picture shows a detail of the early thirteenth-century fresco cycle in the Chapel of St Sylvester in Santi Quattro Coronati. It shows the three messengers sent from Constantine to Pope Sylvester. The work is an outstanding example of medieval Roman art.: it relates the legend of the Pope miraculously curing Emperor Constantine by baptizing him - an event which led to the establishment of papal sovereignty.

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- [Angel of the Last Judgment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/angel-of-the-last-judgment-r7ab1d329d9bb9d>)
- [Apse frescoes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/apse-frescoes-r844945bdf75d7a>)
- [Betrayal of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/betrayal-of-christ-rd6d0f7d5cfd0ce>)
- [Christ Healing the Blind Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/christ-healing-the-blind-man-rc7d930656a8c70>)
- [Christ in Majesty](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/christ-in-majesty-rca78265b58ccb0>)
- [Deposition from the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/deposition-from-the-cross-rb9d87456b9fc8c>)
- [Donation of Constantine \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/donation-of-constantine-detail-rdc52fa249ad5f4>)
- [Donation of Constantine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/donation-of-constantine-rfed1f903b9bd13>)
- [Frescoes in the crypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/frescoes-in-the-crypt-rc26a60c757f47d>)
- [Last Judgment \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-judgment-detail-r316bba35ee9490>)
- [Last Judgment](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-judgment-rcf74eed8147b24>)
- [Last Supper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/romanesque-painter-italian-rea699218a9aca1/last-supper-ra2a57097eb7cd8>)

## Attribution

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