Book contents
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2020
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 2009, 42 fragments of white marble with Cosmatesque decorative inserts were found in the store rooms of the Vatican Museums. Inscriptions on some of these fragments identified their source as the medieval portico of San Giovanni in Laterano, destroyed in 1732. Shortly after the dismantling of the ancient façade, the slabs were reused in the new floor of the Basilica's Portico Sistino. Research conducted on these fragments demonstrated that they were what remained of the frieze on the front of the portico, consisting of an alternation of panels and disks delimited by a band in Cosmatesque work and filled with mosaics, some of which are figurative and with short inscriptions. The fragments were reassembled where possible and restored by the Restoration Laboratories of Marble and Mosaics of the Vatican Museums, while investigations were carried out on the compositional materials from the Diagnostic Laboratory of the Vatican Museums. At the same time, bibliographical and archival research has been carried out which has allowed for a visualisation of the whole scheme.
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- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600 , pp. 276 - 293Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020