page_title: Sancta Sanctorum (Lateran, Rome)
section_title: Artwork
hierarchical_section_title: Sancta Sanctorum (Lateran, Rome) / Artwork
caption_attribution_description: English: Sancta Sanctorum (Rome)
context_page_description: The Sancta Sanctorum is a Roman Catholic chapel entered via the Scala Sancta of the Lateran Palace in Rome. It was the original private chapel of the papacy before it moved to Avignon, and later to the Vatican Palace. The chapel is the only building from the old Lateran Palace that was not destroyed during its reconstruction.
context_section_description: The chapel contains a cypress wood reliquary box, placed under the altar by Pope Leo III (†816). It supposedly houses the bones of at least 13 saints (whereof the chapel derives the name "holy of holies"). The reliquary box itself is taken to represent the Ark of the Covenant in Solomon's Temple.
  Over the course of time, other relics were added, including the cloisonné enameled cross commissioned by Paschal I (†824).
  The opus sectile floor dates from 1278. This style of intarsiated pavement was created in the 12th century by the Cosmati family of stonecutters and widely copied throughout Rome in the 13th century. 
  The chapel also houses an icon of Christ Pantocrator, known as the Veronica, that was supposedly begun by Saint Luke and finished by an angel. It belongs to a class of icons known as acheiropoieta, or images not made by human hands, the most famous of which is the image of Christ’s face that miraculously imprinted itself on the sudarium of Veronica.
caption: Sancta sanctorum, cosmateque pavement from 1278
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