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…
TABLE CIV
In this most gracious Church of St. Maria of Ara-Coeli, made over the temple of Giove Feretrio, raised by Romoto to vote in a battle against the Cecinensi peoples, and it contains many precious moments of every art style and every age,…
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…
TABLE LXXXIII
The church of Saint Maria above Minerva was erected over the ruins of the temple of a Goddess, who people offered many spoils in thanksgiving for the victories against enemies of Rome. This church has always been under the protection…
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…
The terrible singer of the Three Kingdoms sits at a throne where the pedestal reads that mysterious apostrophe. But, we want to say at once, analyze each mystery if you look good in that little rod that opens the door of Dite, and these…