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Page 73
... Christ with the Virgin and Saints flanking the jewelled cross . The smaller fig- ures of St Francis and St Anthony of Padua are included be- cause the church was administered by the Franciscan Order . The basilica is flanked by an ...
... Christ with the Virgin and Saints flanking the jewelled cross . The smaller fig- ures of St Francis and St Anthony of Padua are included be- cause the church was administered by the Franciscan Order . The basilica is flanked by an ...
Page 122
... Christ's Passion ; those on the left have the Cross , those on the right bear the Column of the Flagella- tion . Lower down , in the centre , is the figure of Christ the Judge - not the compassionate Jesus of forgiveness and love , but ...
... Christ's Passion ; those on the left have the Cross , those on the right bear the Column of the Flagella- tion . Lower down , in the centre , is the figure of Christ the Judge - not the compassionate Jesus of forgiveness and love , but ...
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... Christ , poised at the centre like the eye of the storm . Around Him are gathered the Elect : St Lawrence with the instrument of his martyrdom , the grid - iron ; St Bartholomew holding up his own flayed skin , on which there is a ...
... Christ , poised at the centre like the eye of the storm . Around Him are gathered the Elect : St Lawrence with the instrument of his martyrdom , the grid - iron ; St Bartholomew holding up his own flayed skin , on which there is a ...
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1st century BC 2nd century 4th century BC altar ancient Apollo apse artist Augustus Baroque basilica Borghese bronze building built Capitol Caravaggio Cardinal CASTEL SANT'ANGELO Castor and Pollux catacombs ceiling centre Christ Christian church Circus Maximus COLOSSEUM columns constructed decorated designed Emperor Empire entrance Etruscan excavations facade fountains fresco Gallery Gian Lorenzo Bernini Hadrian Holy Imperial interior Italy Jacopo Torriti Julius Caesar Last Judgement later Madonna and Child marble masterpiece mausoleum metres Michelangelo monumental mosaic Moses Museum of Roman nave obelisk Old St Peter's painted palaces Palatine Palazzo dei Conservatori Pantheon papacy Paul Perugino Piazza Pietro Pinacoteca pope Porta portrait Raphael reconstructed Renaissance represents Revine Roma Roman Civilisation Roman copy ROMAN FORUM Rome saints Santa Maria Maggiore scene seven hills Sistine Chapel Sixtus St John Lateran ST PETER'S SQUARE statue Temple of Vesta Tiber Island Titus tomb Trajan's vault victory Villa Virgin wall