British School at Rome: Papers of the British School at Rome (9.1920)

The Portraits of the Popes.

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Down to the end of the epoch under consideration, Celestine III. Portraits
had nineteen successors, and there is evidence that portraits of all of
them once existed. Indeed, of far the greater number of them the Celestine in.
portraits or copies of them or both still exist. We have the likeness in
mosaic of Innocent III.,1 Honorius III.,2 Gregory IX.,3 and Nicholas IV.;4


Fig. io.—Allegorical Figure, perhaps
REPRESENTING THE CHURCH.


Fig. 11.—Mosaic portrait of Honorius III.
in the Apse of S. Paul’s.

and in fresco of Innocent III.,5 Honorius III.,6 Gregory IX.,5 Innocent IV.7
1 Preserved from the mosaic he erected in the apse of old St. Peter’s.
2 In the apse of St. Paul’s (Fig. 11) and in the quaint little mosaic of the frieze of S.
Lawrence outside-the-walls (Plate XXI.).
3 Preserved from the mosaic with which he adorned the facade of old St. Peter’s.
See Plates XX. 5 and XXI.
4 In the apsidal mosaic of St. John Lateran, and also in the splendid one by Jacopo
Torriti in St. Mary Major’s.
6 In the monastery at Subiaco (Fig. 12).
' We give a copy of this fresco that once existed ‘ ad fores ’ of the old church of Sta.
Bibiana (Plate XX. 4). The copy is preserved in Cod. Vat. n. 5407, f. 56 or 104. A curious
portrait of the same Pope is to be seen in the Cod. Barb. Lal. n. 4423, f. 1 (a smaller copy
of the same is given on f. 7). It shows the Pope kneeling at the feet of a crucifix, and the
words : * Fr. Jacob', et. Pniari. (Penitentiarius) et. Cappellan.’
7 At the back of the tomb of his nephew Cardinal William Fieschi in the basilica of
St. Lawrence outside-the-walls (Plate XV.).