Rick Steves Rome 2016 by Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw

Author:Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2015-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

Nave Mosaics

The church contains some of the world’s best-preserved mosaics from early Christian Rome. If the floodlights are on, those with good eyesight or binoculars will enjoy watching the story of Moses unfold in a series of surprisingly colorful and realistic scenes—more sophisticated than anything that would be seen for a thousand years.

The small, square mosaic panels are above all the columns, on the right side of the nave. Start at the altar and work back toward the entry.

1. This is a later painting—skip it.

2. Pharaoh’s daughter (upper left) and her maids take baby Moses from the Nile.

3. Moses (lower half of panel) sees a burning bush that reconnects him with his Hebrew origins. (Now leap the arch to #4.)

4. A parade of Israelites (left side) flees Egypt through a path in the Red Sea, while Pharaoh’s troops drown.

5. Moses leads them across the Sinai desert (upper half), and God provides for them with a flock of quail (lower half).

6. Moses (upper half) sticks his magic rod in a river to desalinate it.

7. The Israelites battle their enemies while Moses commands from a hillside.

8. Skip it.

9. Moses (upper left) brings the Ten Commandments, then goes with Joshua (upper right) to lie down and die.

10. Joshua crosses the (rather puny) Jordan River...

11. ...and attacks Jericho...

12. ...and then the walls come a-tumblin’ down.

• Head back toward the altar to see if the gate to the right transept is open. If so, enter the late-Renaissance chapel (late 1500s); otherwise, skip ahead to Bernini’s Tomb. On the right wall of the chapel is a statue of a praying pope, atop the...

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