The Star Guide-book to Rome ...La Soc. Laziale, 1890 - 529 pages |
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aisle Alexander ancient Apollo Appian arch Augustus Aurelius Bacchus bas relief basilica Baths beautiful bronze building built bust Caesar Capitol Cardinal Catacombs centre century chapel Christ Christian Church of St Circus Clement Colonna colossal Colosseum columns Constantine contains Diana Domenichino Domitian edifice Emperor entrance erected excavations Faun feet Forum fountain fragments frescoes Gallery Giulio Romano Gregory ground Guercino Guido Reni Hadrian Hadrian's Villa Hall Hercules high altar Holy inscription Julius Julius Caesar Jupiter Lateran Madonna magnificent marble Marcus Aurelius Maria Michel Angelo Minerva monument mosaic Museum nave Nero obelisk painted palace Palatine Paul pavement Peter Piazza di Spagna picture Pius Pius VII Ponte Pope porphyry Porta portico Portrait Raffaelle rebuilt remains representing restored road Roman Rome Romulus ruins Saints sarcophagus Septimius Severus side Sixtus SOCIETÀ LAZIALE stands statue stood Temple thermae Tiber Titus tomb Trajan travertine Vase Vatican Venus Villa Virgin wall
Popular passages
Page 235 - ... consciences of the people. The Pope himself, Urban VIII., composed hymns in her praise ; and Cardinal Francesco Barberini undertook to rebuild her church. Amongst those who shared the general enthusiasm, was the painter Pietro da Cortona, who was at Rome at the time, and who very earnestly dedicated himself and his powers to the glorification of St.
Page 235 - Martina. Her church had already been given to the Academy of Painters, and consecrated to St. Luke, their patron saint. It is now
Page 233 - In the centre of the principal group on the vault is the Saviour, seated, with his Mother, crowned and robed like an Eastern Queen, beside him, both sharing the same gorgeous throne and footstool ; while a hand extends from a fan-like glory with a jewelled crown held over his head...
Page 334 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 141 - He shall call upon me, and I will hear him ; yea, I am with him in trouble ; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.
Page 265 - ... and in those who gaze intently on the sudden consternation of Heliodorus, without being able to divine its cause, we see the expression of terror, amazement, joy, humility, and every passion to which human nature is exposed.
Page 149 - Peter, Giotto executed his celebrated mosaic of the Navicella, which has an allegorical foundation. It represents a ship, with the disciples, on an agitated sea ; the winds, personified as demons, storm against it ; above appear the Fathers of the Old Testament speaking comfort to the sufferers.
Page 46 - The first result of this event was that Christianity ceased to be an underground religion, and churches were opened above ground; while the Catacombs became sacred places to the Christians, and burials therein were now a matter of choice and not one...
Page 172 - Nativity, the Adoration of the Magi, the Presentation in the Temple, Christ found by his Mother, the Assumption and Coronation.
Page 257 - It was designed," says Lanzi, " to give a representation of some passages from the life of Moses on one side of the chapel, and from the life of Christ on the other, so that the Old Law might be confronted by the New, the type by the person typified.