Gruesome frescoes depicting artist's impressions of the deaths of martyrs, in the style of a saintly splatter movie.
The pre-christian style of mosaics meets early christian images. Classical themes on the ceiling, in the apses a blonde Jesus and a Zeus-like God the Father.
The arch was built by the roman authorities to celebrate Consantine's 'liberation' of Rome. The narrative strip above the side arches, in grand propoganda style, shows him as a man with a mission.
The arch is thought to mark the spot where the emperor Constantine camped before the battle of the Milvian bridge.
