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This book focuses on apse mosaics in Rome, which were commissioned by a series of popes between the sixth and ninth centuries CE. Through a synchronic approach that challenges current conceptions about how works of art interact with historical time, Erik Thunø proposes that the apse mosaics produce an inter-visual network that collapses their chronological succession in time into a continuous present in which the faithful join the saints in the one living body of the Church of Rome. Throughout, this book situates the apse mosaics within the broader context of viewership, the cult of relics, epigraphic tradition, and church ritual while engaging topics concerned with intercession, materiality, repetition and vision.

Mosaics, Medieval --- Apses (Architecture) --- Christian art and symbolism --- Symbolism in architecture --- Mosaïque médiévale --- Absides --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Symbolisme en architecture --- History --- Histoire --- Mosaics, Medieval - Italy - Rome. --- Apses (Architecture) - Italy - Rome. --- Christian art and symbolism - Italy - Rome - Medieval, 500-1500. --- Symbolism in architecture - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500. --- Mosaïques chrétiennes --- Roma --- Basiliques --- Art, Christian --- Art, Ecclesiastical --- Arts in the church --- Christian symbolism --- Ecclesiastical art --- Symbolism and Christian art --- Religious art --- Symbolism --- Symbolism in art --- Church decoration and ornament --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Architecture --- Bemas (Architecture) --- Details