A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 293
again she burnedthree, and again returned with the three remaining. Then Tar-quin sought the advice of the soothsayers, and they assured him that ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 211 the destinies of the world depended upon the preservation of theseoracles. So they were bought, and for centuries after were… … (Baldassare Peruzzi.) Prophecy of the Sibyl. wide all through the empire to collect the scattered Sibylline leaves,and as many as were found were again carefully preserved. Theidea of the ancient Romans, as recorded by Tacitus and Suetonius,that those who should rule the world should come out fiom…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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