A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 205
f thenativity to which they sodistinctly point. The leg-end relates that the em-peror consulted the sibylTibtirtina, to know if itwere right that he shouldaccept the divine honorswhich the Senate had de-creed to him The sibyl,after meditating some days,took the emperor alone,and showed him an… … 190 LEGENDS ANT) STORTES Augustus erected on the Capitoline Hill an altar, and inscribed it, Ara primogeniti Dei. The Church called the Ara-Coeli stands onthe same spot as that on which the altar was built, and in it is a bas-relief representing this legend, to which an incredible antiquity is…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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