TRICLINIO LEONIANO
Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano
1743 Ferdinando Fuga (1699/1782)
for Benedict XIV Lambertini (1740/58)
Partial
reconstruction of the ancient triclinium
erected by St. Leo III (795/816) as the dining room of the Patriarchìo
(Patriarchate palace)
MOSAIC
“Jesus and
eleven apostles” with on the left “Jesus gives the keys to St. Peter and the
banner to Constantine” and on the right “St. Peter offers the bishops’ pallium
to Leo III and the banner to Charlemagne” 1743 by Pier
Leone Ghezzi (1674/1755)
Ghezzi used
very few original elements but executed it as a copy of the original, prudently
documented by Pier Paolo Cristofari before being destroyed. He had tried to
move it of 180 degrees without success
It was
originally executed at the time of the institution of the Holy Roman Empire by
Charlemagne on the year 800
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