03 — ARTWORK
Façade mosaic
- MEDIUM
- Mosaic
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1200 × 853 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
Around 1300 the work of Roman mosaicists extended to the exteriors as well. At Santa Maria Maggiore mosaics were not only added to the interior but also to the outside of the apseA semicircular projection, roofed with a half-dome, at the east end of a church behind the altar. Smaller subsidiary apses may be found around the choir or transepts. Also known as an exedra. The adjective is apsidal. and the façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building.. Only the façade mosaics, commissioned by the cardinals Jacopo and Pietro Colonna, have survived. They are now hidden behind the eighteenth-century narthexentrance porches in early basilican churches, and for interior vestibules across the western end of later churches. and bear the Signature of Filippo Rusuti. In their upper section they picture Christ enthroned between angels and saints, but in the lower one are four scenes recounting the story of the basilicaa church building, usually facing east, with a tall main nave and two or four side aisles of lesser height. There may also be a transept between the nave and the choir, which is reserved for the clergy. Originally, the basilica was an ancient Greek administrative building, and the Romans used this form for markets and law courts; it then became a place of assembly for the early Christians, and thus a church.'s founding. No other works by Rusuti have survived.
CITE THIS RECORD — BIBTEX
@online{wga-r272eb9622e4edf,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Façade mosaic by RUSUTI, Filippo},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rusuti-filippo-rda2d2d178583dd/faade-mosaic-r272eb9622e4edf},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY FILIPPO RUSUTI
The archive catalogues no further works by this artist.
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