Annie Montgomery Labatt - Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome: A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy)

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Deductive-Tinkering on the Landscape

Detail of John VII, Madonna della Clemenza Icon, Santa Maria in Trastevere, 705707. Rome, Italy

Bust of Pope John VII, Mosaic from the Oratory of John VII, 705707. Vatican grottoes

John VII on Left Side of Triumphal Arch, Santa Maria Antiqua, 705707. Rome, Italy

Saint Demetrios and Donors, Hagios Demetrios, c. 650. Thessaloniki, Greece

The Seven Maccabees, Santa Maria Antiqua, seventh century. Rome, Italy

Virgin and Child Icon, 609, Pantheon. Rome, Italy

Virgin and Child, Saint Catherines Monastery, Mount Sinai, sixth century. Sinai, Egypt

Prophet Elijah, Detail of Apse Mosaic, SantApollinare in Classe, sixth century. Ravenna, Italy

Prophet Elijah, Detail of Apse Mosaic, Saint Catherines Monastery, Mt. Sinai, sixth century. Sinai, Egypt

Crucifixion, Theodotus Chapel, Santa Maria Antiqua, 741752. Rome, Italy

Anastasis, Lower Church, San Clemente, ninth century. Rome, Italy

Fieschi Morgan Reliquary, c. 800

Fieschi Morgan Reliquary, Inner Panel Showing Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Anastasis, c. 800

Widow Turtura, Catacomb of Comodilla, c. 530. Rome, Italy

Anastasis, Detail of the Cruciform Casket, 817824. Musei Vaticani, Vatican City, Italy

Anastasis, San Zeno Chapel, Santa Prassede, c. 822. Rome, Italy

The Lamb of God (above), The Virgin, Saints, and Theodora (below), San Zeno Chapel, Santa Prassede, c. 822. Rome, Italy

Cassiano dal Pozzo, Left Niche, San Zeno Chapel, Santa Prassede, Rome, Italy, c. 16301640

Anastasis, Santa Maria Antiqua, door from ramp to left aisle, 705707. Rome, Italy

Giacomo Grimaldi, Oratory of John VII, Barb. lat. 2733, fols. 90v91r, 16191620

Details of Giacomo Grimaldi, Oratory of John VII, Barb. lat. 2733, fol. 91r, 16191620; Giacomo Grimaldi, Oratory of John VII, Barb. lat. 2732, fols. 76v77r, 1612; and Giacomo Grimaldi, Oratory of John VII, Bibl. Naz. II-III-173, 1620, fol. 102

Giacomo Grimaldi, Nave of Old Saint Peters, South Wall, Cod. Barb. lat. 2733, fols. 113v114r, early seventeenth century

Anastasis, Lower Church, San Clemente, ninth century. Rome, Italy

Anastasis, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, late eighthfirst half of the ninth century. Rome, Italy

Drawing of Wedding of Cana (?) and Anastasis, Lower Church of San Crisogono

Anastasis, SS Martiri, ninth century. Cimitile, Italy

Anastasis, North Wall, Church of St. John, early third of the ninth century. Mstair, Switzerland

Crucifixion, North Wall, Church of St. John, early third of the ninth century. Mstair, Switzerland

Apsidal Arch Wall. Kiss of Judas, Crucifixion, Anastasis. SS Martiri, ninth century. Cimitile, Italy

Detail, Apsidal Arch Wall. Kiss of Judas, Crucifixion, Anastasis. SS Martiri, ninth century. Cimitile, Italy

Transfiguration, Giovanni Bellini, c. 1455. Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

Transfiguration, Church of Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, sixth century

Moses with Burning Bush and Moses Receiving the Law, Triumphal Arch Mosaic, Church of Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, sixth century

Transfiguration, Giovanni Bellini, c. 1487. Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

Apse, SS Nereo ed Achilleo, 815. Rome, Italy

Transfiguration, San Zeno Chapel, Santa Prassede, c. 822. Rome, Italy

Transfiguration, Chludov Psalter, ninth century

Antonio Eclissi, Watercolor of San Zeno Chapel, c. 16301640

Deesis, San Zeno Chapel, Santa Prassede, c. 822. Rome, Italy

Deesis, Santa Maria Antiqua, seventh century