Abstract
The Italian monastery of Farfa was without doubt one of the great abbeys of medieval Europe; yet surprisingly little is known about its physical remains or its artistic production. However, the remains of a fresco, visible today in the abbey church and representing the funerary portrait of an abbot, can be shown to date to the late eighth century on both historical and stylistic grounds, thereby serving as an example of painting during the most formative stages of Carolingian art. The close relationship of this fresco to works of art in central Italy and north of the Alps provides some idea of the cultural exchange involved in this development and the role Farfa may have played in it.
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