Main altar and apse
San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio
Piazza di San Marco
Rome, June 2019
“The floor of the church is below the ground level of the Renaissance period, and therefore steps lead down to the interior. The church retains its ancient basilica format, with a raised sanctuary. The inside of the church is clearly Baroque. However, the basilica shows noteworthy elements of all her earlier history: the apse mosaics, dating to Pope Gregory IV (827-844), show the Pope, with the squared halo of a living person, offering a model of the church to Christ, in the presence of Mark the Evangelist, Pope Mark and other saints.” (San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio, Wikipedia)
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