caption placed under the painting. The cycle is based on the tradition that Theodore savior of the Lombard city, besieged in vain by Charlemagne as it was protected with miracles by its bishop. Theodore in fact caused the Ticino waters to swell, flooding the encampment of the Franks and forcing Charlemagne to abandon the siege. In reality, things did not go this way and Charlemagne conquered Pavia. In front of the crypt there is a polychrome marble statue of San Teodoro dating back to the fourteenth century, which bears the symbolic representation of the city of Pavia. On the pillars of the church there are numerous votive frescoes from the 13th century. In the first span of the left aisle, behind the baptistery, there are two views of Pavia, the first, completed, was torn and brought back to canvas in 1956, since during the restorations it was realized that it concealed a second unfinished fresco (with the same theme). The views were commissioned by the parish priest Giovanni Luchino Corti as a civic ex voto for the victory in the siege of 1522 (in that year the city was besieged by the French, who were however defeated) and were, perhaps, made by Bernardino Lanzani or by an anonymous Lombard artist (defined by critics as Master of the Stories of Sant'Agnese) between the 1522 and 1524. The city is represented in a realistic way, the main buildings of Pavia can be observed, while fighting around the walls are also represented. In the center stands the figure of Saint Anthony the Great (owner of the chapel and protector of the suburb of Pavia located beyond the Ticino) while in the sky, above the city, are the figures of the Eternal Father, the Saint Syrus, Teodoro and Augustine. While the ceiling of the chapel is frescoed with grotesques with an archaeological and sacred subject at the same time, including the Adoration of the Magi. In 1998, during the works for the reconstruction of the heating system, in the first bay of the right aisle, a 12th century mosaic was discovered with scenes surrounded by bands with decorative and iconographic motifs typical of the Romanesque repertoire. The mosaic may have been covered due to interventions due to the subsidence of the ground which occurred in this part of the church. References Roman Catholic churches in Pavia Romanesque architecture in Pavia 13th-century Roman Catholic church