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Early Christian and Medieval Antiquities: (Vol. 2) Other Mosaics, Paintings, Sarcophagi and Small Objects (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture)
Early Christian and Medieval Antiquities Other Mosaics Paintings Sarcophagi and Small Objects - Vol. 2 - The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture Author:John Osborne, Amanda Claridge This volume completes Part II of Series A of the Paper Museum. Together with the first volume, it reflects an unusual aspect of Cassiano's interests, but a particularly relevant one for modern scholars: the material remains of post-classical culture in Rome and the psychical inheritance from the earliest centuries of Christianity. Catalogued her... more »e is a diverse and fascinating range of antiquities: reliefs, inscriptions, sarcophagi, sculpture, manuscript illuminations, gold-glass, gems, ivories, lamps, metalwork and 'instruments of martyrdom'. The drawings were mainly collected by Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, Cassiano's brother, in the later seventeenth century and include some of the finest examples of archaeological draughtsmanship of the period.« less