Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Santa Maria in Cosmedin

A Roman Temple existed here near an ancient food wholesale-market. Over the the centuries this temple was converted into a small Christian church. When during the iconoclastic riots in Byzantium many Greeks fled to Rome, Pope Adrian I in 772 commisioned the building of the church. Greek monks decorated the church, known as "Santa Maria in Schola Graeca" at that time. The crypt under the apse is dated to the early church from the 8th century. The six columns are reused Roman ones, the capitals are younger. The left wall is are made out of tuff blocks, that came from the Roman Temple, that existed here before. There are eight niches, where relics were kept.

A Roman Temple existed here near an ancient food wholesale-market. Over the the centuries this temple was converted into a small Christian church. When during the iconoclastic riots in Byzantium many Greeks fled to Rome, Pope Adrian I in 772 commisioned the building of the church. Greek monks decorated the church, known as "Santa Maria in Schola Graeca" at that time. I could not find any information about this fresco. The icon "Jesus´ First Bath" can often be found on the "Apennine Peninsula" (now: "Italy") within the 12th century - and the Virgin has the very typical reclining posture, just like the Etruscian ladies, but the frescoe seems somehow younger.

A Roman Temple existed here near an ancient food wholesale-market. Over the the centuries this temple was converted into a small Christian church. When during the iconoclastic riots in Byzantium many Greeks fled to Rome, Pope Adrian I in 772 commisioned the building of the church. Greek monks decorated the church, known as "Santa Maria in Schola Graeca" at that time. Most of the pillars were already part of the Roman temple.

A Roman Temple existed here near an ancient food wholesale-market. Over the the centuries this temple was converted into a small Christian church. When during the iconoclastic riots in Byzantium many Greeks fled to Rome, Pope Adrian I in 772 commisioned the building of the church. Greek monks decorated the church, known as "Santa Maria in Schola Graeca" at that time. The church was built with a nave and two aisles. The nave has a fine Cosmatesque pavement.

A Roman Temple existed here near an ancient food wholesale-market. Over the the centuries this temple was converted into a small Christian church. When during the iconoclastic riots in Byzantium many Greeks fled to Rome, Pope Adrian I in 772 commisioned the building of the church. Greek monks decorated the church, known as "Santa Maria in Schola Graeca" at that time. In the 18th century, the sober facade of the church was replaced by a Baroque one, that again got replaced by a (Neo-) Romanesque one, when the church got restored in 1899. The narthex of the church houses the "Bocca della Verità", known worldwide since 1953, when in "Roman Holiday" Gregory Peck ("Joe") shocks Audrey Hepburn ("Princess Ann") by pretending to lose his hand in the Boca.