San Paolo fuori le Mura


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Byzantine Door
Originally commissioned by Hildebrand of Soana, the future Pope St Gregory VII, who had been superior of the monastery of St Paul, it was cast in Constantinople in 1070 by an artist named Theodore. The wealthy Pantaleone, consul of Amalfi in Constantinople, financed the work which was signed by the metal founder Staurachios of Chios. The inscription above documents this history.