The fresco above was recently rediscovered by the Superintendency of Artistic and cultural goods of Rome duranre the restoration work on the wall of what was the original entrance portico of the Basilica of Santa Sabina ( churchs built between 422-432 by Pedro de Illiria priest over the house of Sabina Roman matron). The fresco dates from the seventh century it portrays, and the Virgin Mary, Ss. Peter and Paul, Santa Sabina and Santa Seraphic the papal legates at the Council of Constantinople (680): the archpriest and the elder George and Theodore, to the opposite side of the fresco, Pope Agathon (or its successor). As the papal legacies are represented with the nimbus square, indicating that they were still alive during the composition of the fresco, which helps in the dating. This rare fresco brings us to the period between the eighth and seventh century, when Rome ruled the community and the Greek culture, with the Greek monasteries concentrated between the Aventine and the Tiber banks of the great, right in the area where is located the Basilica of Santa Sabina. At this time, popes, monks and artists spoke the language of Byzantium, an important station of Roman art, but poorly documented.
ancient funerary epigraphs posted on the wall where the newly discovered fresco
inside the basilica of Santa Sabina
photos by efetudas AVRELIVS (23-10-2010)
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