Tombs in and near Rome ; Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884. Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture · Oxford : J. Parker ; London : John Murray · leaf 312
the garden of the monastery of S. Agnes,which was then a public cemetery. This is also preserved in theVatican Museum, to which it was removed by Pius VI., about 1790,and a painting of it placed on the wall where it had stood; this isalso of red porphyry, which is bad for photography. The subjectof… … SARCOPHAGUS OF S.CONSTANTLY AT). 350 SCULPTUKE. PLATE XIII. A CHRISTIAN SARCOPHAGUS.Junius Bassus, a.d. 359. Sculpture. Description of Plate XIII. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Prefect of Rome, a.d. 359, andfive times Consul, in the crypt of S. Peters in the Vatican. This is probably on its…
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