Jacopo Torriti, The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Detail, the saints on the right
13th century
Mosaic
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
The small kneeling figure on the left is Cardinal Jacopo Colonna, one of the two donors. The other donor, Pope Nicholas IV, is in the corresponding position on the left.
Right of the cardinal, St. John the Baptist holds a scroll with the words ECCE AGNUS, referring to his words in John 1:29, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." He wears a cloak over his camel-skin garment.
Next is St. John the Evangelist in a similar cloak over a long white tunic. His scroll has the first words of his Gospel, IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VER[BUM], "In the beginning was the Word."
Finally, the saint on the right is Anthony of Padua, tonsured and wearing the habit of a Franciscan friar.
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Photographed at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.