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Art and nature under an Italian sky (1852)

Dunbar, Margaret Juliana Maria · Edinburgh : Thomas Constable and Co. ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. · leaf 205

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is a portraitof our Lord, attributed to St. Luke, and supposed to havebeen taken when He was twelve years of age ! The Baptistery of this Basilica formerly contained theimmense porphyry font (but very lately indeed removed tothe Vatican) in which Constantino received the rite of bap-tism. In this… … i ome days have been regularly devoted tosystematic sight-seeing, and a very fatiguingv~ tiling I must own it to he, even with all its{ enjoyments; nay, I almost think it is whenone sits down quietly to arrange ones recol-lections, and class them under different heads,that the greatest amount of…

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