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Everyone will want to know that you have added to this table detail of the altar described above. When we met in works really stunning, and of which it is useful to know what the right proportions of the moldings and the development of the ornamental…

Following the other parts of the decorations, in which for the others it can be seen what agreement should have reigned throughout the entire mass.

As we did with the other two first volumes, although this is (chuide icnografica) with a table containing the plants in half the DEA reports of all the monuments of that composed this third volume. We placed our every care to ensure that in such…

The Cardinal Lorenzo Cibo, Genoese patrician and a descendant of the noble family who willed original heraldic writers of Greece, is remembered by biographers as very learned man and angelic costumes. Taken from a special devotion to S. Lorenzo was…

A right hand of the little port of St. Maria sopra Minerva is placed against the wall this time and supported by three carved corbels. The white marble statue lies down on the urn reminds the effigy of Rural Vincent apostolic secretary and man…

Of these two monuments, one on the right remembers the name of a famous carver in marble, Andrea Bregno, author of the beautiful altar for us reproduced in Table LVI of this volume. From (scolpitavi) epigraph above we can argue what account it was…

Of the three monuments etched in this table, the first contains the mortal remains of Salvo Cassetta, who died in 1483 aged 70 . He was inquisitive, Master of the Sacred Palace and general of his order. Sixtus IV sent as ambassador to Germany for…

There are three monuments. The first is a memory burial Alberto Strozzi Mantua, who died in 1553, operates all of white marble, simple but beautiful in its proportions and with the portrait of the deceased in a bust in full relief. The last Butigella…

Where there stands the church of S. Pietro in Vincula willed to pious tradition have made wall the first church in Rome, the Prince of the Apostles, and dedicated to SS. Savior. However this may be that, it is certain that the fire of Nero razed the…

Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, a Roman patrician, young age while growing up in the virtues, honors, riches, it was from her that does not look neither provided nor to age, and revolves around his scythe inexorably caught forever in many sweet hopes.…