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Rome (1887)

Wey, Francis, 1812-1882 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 79

An illustration from Rome, 1887, leaf 79
I shall content myself with commending some interestingobjects that people do not usually seek, and of which the guides saynothing. There is, to begin with, behind the master-altar, a mosaicof the tenth century, which represents the Virgin surrounded by foursaints, separated from one another by… … The church of Antoninus and Faustina, with its travertine cclla,crowned with the frieze on which griffins sport, separated bycandelabra and vases, was formerly a pa^an temple whose columns, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. 61 the greatest monoliths of cipollino that are known, have for diademsan…

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