Inscriptions: ANNO D[OMI]NIC[A]E INCARNATIONIS MCXXVII H[A]EC ECC[LES]IA SVB HONORE S[AN]C[T]ORVM EVTROPI[I] [EEPISCOPI AEGIDII] AB[ATIS]\u2026ET MERCVRIALIS GRADI MARCI GERVASI P[RO]TASI IOHANNIS PAVLI MARCELLI SIXTI BARBAR[A]E ET S[ANCTAE] MARI[A]E VIRGINIS P[RO] ANIMARVM REDE[M]PCIONE RODVLFI ET VGONIS FILII SVI MENSE OCTVBRIS\u2026 ANN[O] XXVIIII SV[A]E P[RI]M[AE] E[RE]C[TIONIS] REHEDICATA E[ST]
\n[In the 1127th year since the incarnation of Our Lord, this church in honour of St. Eutropius the Bishop, St. Giles the Abbot, St. Mercurialis, St. Gratus, St. Mark, St. Gervase, St. Protase, St. John, St. Paul, St. Marcellus, St. Sixtus, St. Barbara and the Blessed Virgin Mary was rebuilt for the redemption of the souls of Rodolfo and of Ugo his son in the month of October\u2026 in the 29th year after its initial foundation]<\/p>\n
on the book: EGO SVM LVX VERA [I am the true light]<\/p>\n
One of the earliest dated works of art to have been made in Faenza, this stone bas-relief celebrates the rebuilding of the church of Sant\u2019Eutropio. Christ, with a cruciform halo, blesses with his right hand while holding in his left hand a book with the words \u201cego sum lux vera\u201d, a reference to the Gospel of St. John (Jn, 8:12; 14:6). St. Giles, on the left, is accompanied by his attribute, the doe that fed him her milk during his years as a hermit. St. Eutropius, on the right, holds a bishop\u2019s crosier.<\/p>\n
The bas-relief was discovered in June 1910, along with a brick bearing the year 1098 (the year Sant\u2019Eutropio was founded), during demolition of a wall in a house at no. 64, Corso Mazzini in Faenza. Following the bas-relief\u2019s rediscovery, it was suggested that it came from the epoymous church demolished after the Napoleonic suppression in the 19th century, on the grounds that it celebrates the church\u2019s rebuilding in 1127 and contains a dedication to the patrons Rodolfo and his son Ugo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5529,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[129],"class_list":["post-7772","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-limestone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/7772\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}