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Inside
the Archiepiscopal Museum there is the Oratory of St. Andrea, built by
Pietro II Bishop in full Theodorican period. Before coming to the chapel
we pass through a narthex of rectangular plan with barrel vault, the
decoration represents a flowered lawn with hens, doves, ducks,
peacocks and pheasants. In the walls of the narthex there is a long
Latin inscription (twenty hexameters) in mosaic and says: "aut lux hic nata est, aut capta hic libera regnat".
It expresses the polichrome luminosity of the mosaic rooms, vibrating of
reflexes and of unimaginable change of colours. In the lunette above the
door a Christ warrior
that tramps onto a lion and a snake the symbols of evil annulled bu the
divine force. On the book that Christ holds in his hand is written: "Ego sum via, veritas, et vita".
In the cupola of the chapel decorated with mosaic there are four
angels there are the symbols of the Evangelists, in the intradoses of
the four arches at the sides of the central vault, there are the mosaics
of Christ, Apostles and Saints. |
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