Roma Sotterranea; or, Some account of the Roman catacombs especially of the cemetery of San Callisto, compiled from the works of Commendatore de Rossi with the consent of the author (1869)
Northcote, J. Spencer (James Spencer), 1821-1907, Brownlow, W.-R. (William-R.), 1830-1901, Rossi, Giovanni Battista de, 1822-1894 · London : Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer · leaf 314
St Peter, if his name had not, in twoinstances at least, been unmistakably given at his side. Oneof these glasses has been long known to antiquarian visitors tothe Vatican Museum,^ and within the last few months asecond, preserved in the same place, but whose surface hadbecome corroded and opaque,… … f^- 12,.—Bottom of a Gilded Glass found i7i the Catacombs, and lately cleaned, andrestored to the Vatican Mnseum. These invaluable glasses supply us with a key to many ofthe paintings in the Catacombs and sculptures on Christiansarcophagi, where the same scene is so frequently repeated.They show us…
Cimitero di Callisto (Rome, Italy) · Catacombs · Inscriptions
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