Une image peut en cacher une autre: le décor absidal du Vieux-Saint-Pierre à Rome

• Autores: Yves Christe
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 28, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: L’eau dans la ville tardo-antique), págs. 235-245
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Does the mosaic in the apse of Old Saint Peter’s in Rome, around 360, really illustrate a “Traditio legis”? This emblematic image of the Roman funerary art from 360-400 is no longer relevant since 400, and disappear almost completely around 450. There only remain a few evidence of it, always associated with the giving of the Book to Peter. The absence of this particular iconographical theme after 400 seems inconsistent with the prestige that it would have acquired in Old Saint Peter’s. Single example of the real “Traditio legis” in its Paleochristian formula, the apse’s decoration of San Silvestro of Tivoli add to this iconographical theme the one of the apse program of the church of Santi Cosma e Damiano, which has a rich and varied medieval prosperity, in contrast to the Old Saint Peter’s. I would hence conclude that it is the decoration of the Forum church that truly transcribes the one of the Martyrium of Saint Peter in its final iconographical formulation.