When a workman fell through the floor of the crypt at St. Peter's a first century cemetery was discovered, including this mosaic.

San Paolo fuori l'mura

Behind the triumphal arch is the apse with its mosaic and the baldanquinn over the martyr/apostle Paul. At the focus of the apse is the bishop's throne directly under the apse mosaic of the enthroned Christ.

Christ and the Virgin enthroned may be derived from the 12th century mosaic in the apse of Santa Maria in Trestavere. This mosaic by Jacapo Torriti (1290-95) represents the coronation of the Virgin and commemorates the ...

The mosaic of the virgin surrounded by female figures with lamps, done in the 13th century. The portico was added by Carlos Fontana in 1702.

Giving some probability to the latter Christian interpretation of the above is the remains in the plaster, sans tessari, of the Christian story of Jonah being cast out of the boat into the waiting jaws of the sea monster ...

The imprint of another mosaic in the same cubiculum. It was the discovery of this ancient cemetery which led in the 1940's to the scholarly excavations, revealing what Pius XII declared to be the tomb of St. Peter on ...