The art of the Vatican; being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls (1903)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 24
hey proclaim the marvellous treasures of art col-lected within thein. To get a true appreciation ofthese architectural triumphs, it is necessary to viewthem not only with the e>-e of present sight, but withthe eye of retrospection as well. Even a short andnecessarily incomplete account of the… … TTbc IDaticau palace s to a city with a population of a hundred and thirtythousand. Compared in size with the palace alone,even the Colosseum sinks into insignificance. Forthe Colosseum would not quite fill up the groundplan of St. Peters. And it would take all of St.Peters and more than half as…
Vatican. Museo vaticano · Art
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