Plates · Volume VIII (1952)

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PORTRAIT OF CLEMENT IX. Plate I Maratti, Carlo EMBROIDERED COPE, GIFT OF NICHOLAS IV TO ASCOLI (1288-92) - Ascoli Piceno, Pinacoteca. Plate II Marche Above: ORNAMENTAL CENTRE OF A VAULT IN STUCCO by Federico Brandani (16th cent.) - Urbino, Palazzo ducale. Below: TRANSITO DELLA VERGINE. Panel by a Marchigian school (14th cent.) - Ancona, Pinacoteca. Plate III Marche Above and below: EPISODES FROM THE LIFE OF ST. MARK. Mosaic of the late 12th cent. Venice, basilica of St. Mark. (phot. Anderson) Plate IV Mark, Bishop of Aretusa Above: ST. MARGARET MARTYR. Episodes from her life. Master of St. Cecilia (early 14th cent.) - Montici, church of St. Margaret. Below: DEATH OF ST. MARGARET OF CORTONA. Painting by M. Benefial (first half of the 18th cent.) - Rome, church of St. Mary in Aracoeli. Plate V Margaret, Saint Above: PIUS IX DEFINES THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. Detail of the fresco by Francesco Podesti - Vatican, Hall of the Immaculate Conception. Below: PIUS XII DEFINES THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION - Rome, basilica of St. Peter. Plate VI Maria Ss.ma Above left: IMAGE OF MARY MOST HOLY CALLED "OF ST. LUKE" (12th-13th cent.) - Rome, basilica of St. Mary Major. Right: MADONNA DELL'ARACOELI (12th cent.) - Rome, church of St. Mary in Aracoeli. Plate VII Mary, Most Holy Left: MADONNA AND CHILD. Sculpture by F. Laurana (ca. 1471) - Messina, church of St. Augustine. Above right: DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, DEATH, ASSUMPTION AND CORONATION OF MARY. Frescoes by G. B. Ricci da Novara (ca. 1615) - Rome, church of St. Onofrio al Gianicolo. Below right: FAINTING OF MARY MOST HOLY AT THE TOMB. Group by Guido Mazzoni (1450-1518) - Brescia, church of St. Mary of the Carmine. Plate VIII Mary, Most Holy Above left: MADONNA DEI SERVI (1320) - Vienna, church of St. Stephen. Above right: MARY VIRGIN ANNUNCIATE. Relief of the portal of the Cathedral (late 12th cent.) - Altamura. Below left: PIETÀ. Polychrome wood of the late 16th cent. - Naples, church of the Pio Monte della Misericordia. Below right: THE SORROWFUL MOTHER. Polychrome sculpture by Juan de Juni (16th cent.) - Valladolid, chapel of the Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Plate IX Mary, Most Holy Left: MADONNA DELLA MISERICORDIA. Painting by Piero della Francesca (ca. 1450) - Sansepolcro, Pinacoteca comunale. Plate X Mary, Most Holy A) ASSUMPTION, work by Vangenechten (China) - Rome, Exhibition of Missionary Art 1950. B) INDIAN MADONNA WITH CHILD (17th cent.). Property of the Count of New Goa. C) MADONNA WITH CHILD (in ebony). Tanganyika (British Africa) - Rome, Exhibition of Missionary Art 1950. D) IMMACULATE MADONNA (in wood). Wallis Island - Rome, Exhibition of Missionary Art 1950. Plate XI Mary, Most Holy Above left: THE PIOUS WOMEN AT THE TOMB. Fresco of the first half of the 3rd cent. - Dura Europos. Right: DEAD JESUS MOURNED BY THE MARYS. Group in polychrome terracotta by Niccolò dell'Arca (15th cent.) - Bologna, church of St. Mary of Life. Below left: MARY OF MOSES. Sculpture by Giovanni Pisano (14th cent.). Detail - Siena, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Right: RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS with Mary at the feet of Jesus. Mosaic in the Palatine Chapel (late 12th cent.) - Palermo, Palazzo reale. Plate XII Mary, Most Holy Above: NOLI ME TANGERE. Fresco by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305) - Padua. Below: MARY MAGDALENE AT THE FEET OF JESUS. Watercolour by Angelo Da Fonseca (India) - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Plate XIII Mary Magdalene, Saint Above: NORTH VIEW OF THE CHURCH MAJOR, ancient cathedral (12th cent.). Right, part of the bell tower of the new Cathedral (19th cent.). Below: CRYPT OF ST. VICTOR (5th cent.) and chapel called of St. Lazarus. Plate XIV Marsiglia, Archdiocese Of REAR FAÇADE of an altar dedicated by one T. C. Faventinus to the myth of Mars. In the first upper panel: Mars approaches Rhea Silvia asleep by the Tiber; in the second, the vestal with the two twins; in the third, the exposure of the two newborns in the river while Mars armed contemplates, protecting god, the scene, from a hill (the Palatine?) a shepherd (Faustulus?) is watching; in the fourth the she-wolf, between two amazed shepherds, suckles the twins (2nd-3rd cent. AD) - Rome, Vatican Museum. Plate XV Mars (Marte) Left: THE LIBERAL ARTS. Inlaid wooden door, after a design by Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Urbino, Ducal Palace. Right: ANGEL BEARER OF THE CANDLE. Bronze by Francesco di Giorgio Martini - Siena, high altar of the Cathedral. Plate XVI Martini, Francesco di Giorgio Above: VIRGIN BETWEEN ST. LUCY AND ST. CATHERINE - Orvieto, Municipal Museum. Plate XVII Martini, Simone (Simone di Martino) Above left: ST. MARTIN DIVIDES HIS CLOAK WITH THE BEGGAR (ca. 1220) - Lucca, interior of the Cathedral. Above right: DETAIL OF THE GROUP OF ST. MARTIN DIVIDING HIS CLOAK WITH THE BEGGAR (ca. 1240) - Bassenheim, parish church. Below left: ST. MARTIN DIVIDES HIS CLOAK WITH THE BEGGAR. Retable of St. Martin (1447). Work by Jacomart - Segorbe, Castellon de la Plana. Episcopal Palace, museum room. Below right: ST. MARTIN GIVES ALMS TO A BEGGAR. Statue leaning against a pillar in the interior of the Cathedral. Work by Heinrich Blankebyl (late 15th cent.) - Xanten. Plate XVIII Martin of Tours, Saint Above left: ST. AGATHA MARTYR with stole, dalmatic and pallium. Mosaic (6th cent.) - Ravenna, church of S. Apollinare Nuovo. Above centre: THE MARTYRS MARCELLINUS, POLLIO AND PETER with tunic, pallium, scroll, crown and nimbus. Fresco (late 5th cent.) - Rome, cemetery of Ponziano. Above right: THE MARTYR FELIX with tunic, pallium and open book. Mosaic (early 5th cent.) - Milan, basilica of S. Ambrogio, chapel of S. Vittore. Below, upper band: APOSTLES with crown, book and scroll; in the apse: MARTYRS IN ACT OF REVERENT HOMAGE to Mary Most Holy with Christ in her lap. Mosaic (ca. 530-60) - Parenzo, Euphrasian basilica. Plate XIX Martyrdom and Martyr Above left: MONTH OF JANUARY FROM THE CALENDAR OF ST. WILLIBRORD (ca. 702-705) - Paris, National Library, ms. lat. 10837, f. 34v. Above right: HIERONYMITE MARTYROLOGY. Codex Laureshamensis (9th cent.) with the laterculi from the 6th kal. to the day before the Kalends of February - Vatican Library, cod. Pal. lat. 238, f. 2r of the fragment inserted at the end of the codex. Below: HIERONYMITE MARTYROLOGY. Codex Bernensis (8th cent.) with the laterculi from the 4th kal. to the day before the Kalends of July; of particular interest the notice concerning Sts. Peter and Paul - Bern, City Library, cod. 289, f. 101v-102v. Plate XX Martyrology Above: ADAM AND EVE DRIVEN FROM THE EARTHLY PARADISE, detail of Masaccio's fresco in the Brancacci Chapel - Florence, church of the Carmine. Below: THE TRIBUTE: Christ orders to take the coin from the fish's mouth and Peter pays the tribute - Florence, church of the Carmine, Brancacci Chapel. Plate XXI Masaccio, Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone Cassai, detto Left: ST. PAUL. Side part of the Pisa polyptych - Pisa, Civic Museum. Right: ST. PETER ENTHRONED SURROUNDED BY FRIARS AND FAITHFUL. Detail of St. Peter raising the child. Fresco in the Brancacci Chapel - Florence, church of the Carmine. Plate XXII Masaccio, Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone Cassai, detto Above: CRUCIFIXION - Rome, church of S. Clemente, chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria. Below: RESURRECTION OF TABITHA AND HEALING OF THE LAME MAN - Florence, church of the Carmine, Brancacci Chapel. Plate XXIII Masolino da Panicale CATHEDRAL. Work by Enrico da Campione (1228) - Massa Marittima. Plate XXIV Massa Marittima, Diocese of Plate XXV Plate XXV Freemasonry Left: PORTRAIT OF GEROLAMO CARDANO, frontispiece of the Opera Omnia. Copy from the National Library - Rome. Right: TITLE PAGE OF THE OPERA OMNIA, with allegorical engraving with Euclid and Ptolemy - Copy from the National Library - Rome. Plate XXVI Mathematics MARY MOST HOLY PRAYING WITH THE CLIPEATE IMAGE OF THE CHILD JESUS IN HER LAP. The Mater Domini. Byzantine sculpture of the 11th cent. - Venice, church of S. Maria Mater Domini. Plate XXVII Divine Maternity of Mary, Blessed Left: ST. MATTHEW WRITING THE GOSPEL. Mosaic of the 6th cent. - Ravenna, church of S. Vitale. Right: ST. MATTHEW WRITING THE GOSPEL. Miniature of the Ferrarese school (15th cent.) - Vatican Library, cod. Urb. Ist., 10. Plate XXVIII Matthew, Bishop of Albano Above left: ST. MAURICE PATRON OF KNIGHTS. Detail of the reliquary casket of St. Sigismund (12th cent.) - St-Maurice (Valais), Treasury of the abbey. Above right: RELIQUARY BUST of St. Candidus (12th cent.) with scene of martyrdom - St-Maurice (Valais), Treasury of the abbey. Below: SIDE OF THE RELIQUARY CASKET OF ST. MAURICE (12th cent.). St. Paul and St. Peter between a seraph and a cherub - St-Maurice (Valais), Treasury of the abbey. Plate XXIX Maurice, Duke and Elector of Saxony Above: MAUSOLEUM OF CECILIA METELLA (1st cent.) - Rome. Plate XXX Mausoleum Left: PAGE OF THE DRESDEN MAYA CODEX. Above right: RELIEF VASE from Guatemala. Below right: THE GOD OF WHEAT. Stele - Guatemala. Plate XXXI Maya, Religion of the Left: ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE. Library. Right: ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE. Courtyard. Plate XXXII Maynooth Above centre: Recto and verso of the medal of JOHN VIII PALAEOLOGUS, Pisanello (1438) - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. At the sides: Recto and verso of the medal of FRANCESCO II OF CARRARA - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Centre left: Recto and verso of the medal of PHILIP II OF SPAIN, Jacopo da Trezzo (16th cent.) - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Centre right: Recto and verso of the medal of HENRY IV, Nicolas Greinier (17th cent.) - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Below left: Recto of the satirical medal representing PAUL III WITH THE DEVIL AS COUNSELLOR - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Below centre: Recto and verso of the medal of EMPEROR CHARLES III AND EMPRESS MARIA AMALIA - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Below right: Recto of the medal of GOETHE, G. David (1829) - Paris, Cabinet of Medals. Plate XXXIII Medal (phot. Anderson) Plate XXXIV Medici, Family CASE TURRITE (12th-13th cent.). Plate XXXV Middle Ages Left: CONSTRUCTION OF THE CATHEDRAL OF MODENA. Above: the architect Lanfranco orders the excavation of the foundations. Note the inscriptions: «Lanfrancus architectorum» and «Operarii». Below: the architect Lanfranco directs the first structures. Note the inscriptions: «Lanfrancus» and «Artifices» «Operarii». Miniatures from the Relatio translationis corporis s. Geminiani (13th cent.) - Modena, Archivio capitolare. Right: ACT OF HOMAGE. Miniature from the Chronicon (1347-49) by Egidio le Misuit, abbot of S. Martino di Tournai - Courtrai, Biblioteca della città, no. 135. Plate XXXVI Middle Ages Above: TOURNAMENT SCENE. Fresco (13th-14th cent.) - S. Gimignano, Museo. Below: RICH AND POOR. Detail of the Triumph of Death. Fresco attributed to a Bolognese master (14th cent.) - Pisa, Camposanto. Plate XXXVII Middle Ages from I. Cato, Melbourne, Melbourne 1949. pl. 67 Plate XXXVIII Melbourne, Archdiocese of Central fragment of the fresco formerly in the apse of the church of the SS. Apostoli - Rome, Palazzo del Quirinale. Plate XXXIX Melozzo da Forlì Above: NATIVITY AND ADORERS - Monaco, Pinacoteca. Plate XL Memling (Memlinc), Hans Above left: A BATH near the Basilica - Abu Mena. Above right: CRYPTOPORTICO with openings leading into the burial cells - Abu Mena. Below: NORTH WALL OF THE BASILICA (early 5th cent.) - Abu Mena. Plate XLI Menas, Saint, Martyr Marble CORBEL supporting the pulpit of the church of S. Croce, work by B. da Maiano (15th cent.) - Florence. Plate XLII Bracket FACADE OF THE CATHEDRAL OF S. GIOVANNI (1498) - Turin. Plate XLIII Meo Del Caprina Above left: BRUSSELS LACE (18th cent.) - Trento, Duomo. Above right: ALTAR CLOTH BORDER. Milanese needle lace (18th cent.) - Monreale, sacristy of the church of S. Martino della Scala. Below left: CLOTH BORDER. Reticella lace. Modern lace imitating antique from the Laboratorio di Casamanella - Rome, private collection. Below right: CLOTH BORDER with bobbin lace and Aquila reattached point (17th cent.) - Celenza (Chieti), church of S. Maria dell'Assunta. Plate XLIV Lacework Above left: VENICE POINT SURPLICE (17th cent.) - Parma, Tesoro della chiesa della Steccata. Plate XLV Lacework Above left: PRIEST AT THE ALTAR. Book of Hours of Paris (15th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. lat. 1161, f. 192. Above right: PRIEST AT THE ALTAR assisted by Ministers. Miniature from the Morris Missal (ca. 1320) - London, Morris property. Below left: ELEVATION OF THE HOST. Book of Hours and Franciscan Missal (1380) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. lat. 757, f. 255v. Below right: ELEVATION OF THE CHALICE. Book of Hours of Federico d'Aragona (early 16th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. lat. 10532, f. 94. Plate XLVI Mass Un. Club - Burgos Plate XLVII Mass PAPAL PONTIFICAL MASS IN ST. PETER'S. Plate XLVIII Mass Above left: KYRIE of the Mass L'homme armé by G. Dufay - Biblioteca Vaticana, Cappella Sistina 49, f. 36v (early 16th cent.). Above right: KYRIE of the Mass L'homme armé by A. Brumel - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. Chig. C. VIII. 234, f. 199v (ca. 1500). Below left: GLORIA with Marian tropes from the Missa de Beata Virgine by Josquin (Josse Després). Below right: AGNUS DEI of the Mass Simile est regnum cælorum by Th. L. de Vitoria - Biblioteca Vaticana, Cappella Sistina 212, f. 22v. Plate XLIX Mass Above left: MISSAL OF BOBBIO (8th cent.). Epistle and Gospel of the Mass of a martyr - Paris, Bibliothèque nat., ms. lat. 13246, f. 169 v. Above right: MISSAL OF ROBERT OF JUMIÈGES (11th cent.). Mass for the sick with some parts of the chant indicated only by incipits, f. 207. Below left: MISSAL OF MR. MORRIS (ca. 1320). Miniature of the Te Igitur. Elevation of the Host. London, property of Mr. Morris. Below right: MISSAL OF GEORGE OF CHALLANT (1499). Beginning of the Canon - Châtillon (Aosta), property of the counts Passerin d'Entrèves. Plate L Missal Above left: MISSALE SPECIALE of the diocese of Constance, printed by Gutenberg ca. 1457 - Plate LI Missal Left: ROMAN MISSAL. Crucifixion at the beginning of the Canon. Miniature attributed to Perugino (late 15th cent.) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Barb. lat. 614, f. 219. Right: AMBROSIAN MISSAL. Incipit of the editio princeps, Milan 1475 - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Plate LII Missal Left: MISSAL OF MATTHIAS CORVINUS. Introit and collect of the first Sunday of Advent. Miniature by a Hungarian artist (ca. 1490) David in prayer. In the architectural motifs: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. In the lower frieze: Coat of arms of Matthias Corvinus - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Urb. Lat. 110, f. 1°. Right: ROMAN MISSAL. Miniature by Monte Giovanni (1509-10). From bottom to top: Prayer in the Port; Communion of the Apostles, Last Supper, Entry into Jerusalem, in the picture hanging in the Cenacle. In the friezes: Eucharistic motifs. Below: emblems of Florence - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Barb. lat. 610, f. 185°. Plate LIII Missal Above left: THE GOD OF RAIN (probably). Calcite sculpture - Rome, Museo Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini. Above centre: CEREMONIAL AXE of diorite of the Totonacs - Rome, Museo Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini. Above right: THE GOD QUETZALCOATL. Carved jade block - London, British Museum. Below: ILLUSTRATED MEXICAN CODEX (pre-Columbian) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Borg. I, ff. 9 and 10. Plate LIV Mexico Above left: CUANIITAMOC THEATRE - Mexico City. Above right: CATHEDRAL OF SANTIAGO. Below left: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY (18th cent.) - Xochimilco. Below right: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF TEPOZOTLÁN. Plate LV Mexico Above: VIEW OF THE PORT, destroyed by the 1908 earthquake - Messina. Plate LVI Messina, Archdiocese of MAIN DOOR OF THE CATHEDRAL (14th and 15th cent.) - Messina. Plate LVII Messina, Archdiocese of Above: CATHEDRAL, PIAZZA D'ARMI AND PIAZZA SAINT-ETIENNE. Plate LVIII Metz, Diocese of Above left: THE PIETÀ - Rome, basilica of St. Peter. Above right: THE PIETÀ OF PALESTRINA - Florence, Accademia. Below left: THE PIETÀ - Florence, Duomo. Below right: THE RONDANINI PIETÀ - Rome, Palazzo Rondanini. Plate LIX Michelangelo Buonarroti (in autographs Michelagnolo) Above: THE PALAZZO DEI CONSERVATORI ON THE CAMPIDOGLIO - Rome. Plate LX Michelangelo Buonarroti (in autographs Michelagnolo) Plate LXI Plate LXI Michael, Archangel Left: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF S. AGOSTINO - Montepulciano. Plate LXII Michelozzo Above left: Painted ROMAN ALTAR, found in via Circo - Milan. Above right: ST. VICTOR. Mosaic (5th cent.) - Milan, basilica of S. Ambrogio, chapel of St. Victor. Below left: SILVER REPOUSSÉ CASKET (4th cent.) - Milan, basilica of S. Nazaro. Below right: CHRIST CROWNING TWO ECCLESIASTICS (13th cent.) - Milan, church of S. Stefano. Plate LXIII Milan, Archdiocese of Above left: CHURCH OF S. LORENZO - Milan. Above right: TEATRO DELLA SCALA. Architect G. Piermarini - Milan. Below: AERIAL VIEW of the Castello Sforzesco - Milan. Plate LXIV Milan, Archdiocese of Above left: CHRIST IN GLORY BETWEEN SAINTS GERVASIUS AND PROTASIUS. The two side scenes represent the vision of St. Ambrose and the funeral of St. Martin of Tours, Mosaic (late 10th cent.) - Milan, basilica of S. Ambrogio. Above right: CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN. Fresco by Borgognone (1517). Abbey of the church of S. Simpliciano - Milan. Below left: ABBEY OF S. PIETRO IN MONTE. Fresco with apocalyptic scene. The killing of the Dragon (12th cent.). Below right: FRESCO WITH THE GAME OF TAROT (early 15th cent.) - Milan, Palazzo Borromeo. Plate LXV Milan, Archdiocese of Above left: GENERAL VIEW OF MUGENZAI-NO-SONO (Japan). The garden of the Immaculate near Nagasaki (1930). Above right: BROTHER ZENONE THE «FATHER OF ORPHANS» at Mugenzai. Below left: ONE OF THE THREE GREAT ROTARY PRESSES of Niepokalanów (Rotary press of the Piccolo Giornale). Below right: FOLDING OF THE MAGAZINES at Niepokalanów. Plate LXVI Milizia dell'Immacolata Above left: MINIATURE of the Topographia christiana of Cosmas Indicopleustes. Enoch and death (9th cent.) - Biblioteca Vat., cod. Vat. gr. 699, f. 56°. Above right: THE REDEEMER AMONG THE EVANGELISTS. Bible of Charles the Bald (2nd half 9th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale. Below left: THE APPEARANCE OF CHRIST ON THE CLOUDS (Rev. 1:7-10). Commentary on the Apocalypse of Beatus, codex from St-Sever (11th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. lat. 8878. Below right: INTERLACING OF LETTERS (Liber Generationis Christi) from the Book of Kells (8th cent. - early 9th cent.) f. 29° - Dublin, Library of Trinity College, ms. 48 (A. I. 6). Plate LXVII Illumination Above left: MARTYRDOM OF ST. LUCY. Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II (976-1025) - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, f. 242. Above right: THE VISITATION. Miniature from the Evangeliary of Egbert, bishop of Trier (977-93) - Trier, Stadtbibliothek, cod. 24. Below left: SEPARATION OF ABRAHAM AND LOT. Miniature by the Maître aux Boqueteaux (14th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. fr. 15397, f. 14. Below right: PHILIP THE GOOD RECEIVES THE ANNALES DE HAINAUT. Miniature attributed to Roger de la Pasture (1426) - Brussels, Bibliothèque royale. Plate LXVIII Illumination Above left: THE BEES. Miniature referring to the praise of bees in the Exultet no. 1 (11th cent.) - Mirabella Eclano, collegiate church. Above right: MARRIAGE OF A KING. Miniature by Niccolò di Giacomo (14th cent.) - Biblioteca Vat., cod. Vat. lat. 2534, f. 161v. Below left: ASSUMPTION OF MARY. Miniature from the Fermo Missal of 1436 - Fermo, Cathedral. Below right: INITIAL WITH ST. JEROME AND FRIEZES. Preface of St. Jerome to the Psalms. Bible of Federico di Montefeltro (1478) - Biblioteca Vat., cod. Urb. lat. 2, f. 2. Plate LXIX Illumination THE MASS OF BOLSENA. Fresco by Raphael in the Stanza di Eliodoro (1513-14). Plate LXX Eucharistic Miracles Left: THE SEVEN WORKS OF MERCY. Psalter of Canterbury (early 14th cent.). Miniature of Italian school - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. lat. 8846, f. 156°. Right: GIVING DRINK TO THE THIRSTY. Painting attributed to Sano di Pietro - Pinacoteca Vaticana Plate LXXI Mercy Above left: THE APOSTOLIC VICARS AND PREFECTS of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi gathered at Léopoldville for the IV Plenary Conference (11 March 1951). Above right: INVESTITURE OF INDIGENOUS DOMINICAN NUNS in the College of St. Catherine (Manila 1950). Below left: SOLEMN INAUGURATION of the Holy Year commemorative Cross (Easter 1951) - Tosamaganga (Apost. Vic. of Iringa). Below right: FIRST AID SCENE. A wounded man brought by canoe from the forest to the hospital of the Grey Sisters (1942) - Mackenzie, Fort Smith (Canada). Plate LXXII Catholic Missions Plate LXXIII Plate LXXIII Catholic Missions Above left: ALTAR IN CHINESE STYLE - Siwantzé. Above right: MONUMENT TO THE SACRED HEART - Batavia. Below left: MADONNA IN STONE from the early period of Portuguese missionary activity (Portuguese India) - Lisbon, Ethnological Museum. Below right: BRASS PYXI, Baulé style - Ivory Coast. Plate LXXIV Catholic Missions Above left: JOSEPH AND MARY SEEKING LODGING. Painting on silk by Lu-Hung-Nien (China) - Rome, Exhibition of Missionary Art 1950. Above right: MADONNA AND CHILD, watercolour on silk by Teresa Koseki Kimiko (Japan) - Rome, Exhibition cit. Below left: MADONNA OF GUADALUPE. Mosaic of coloured straw - Tarahumara (Mexico). Below right: SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO ME. Painting by Luca C'en (China) - Rome, Exhibition cit. Plate LXXV Catholic Missions Above: MITHRAS RELIEF with scene of communion of believers - Sarajevo, Museum. Below: MITHRAS SLAYING THE BULL. At his sides Cautes (sun at dawn) and Cautopates (sun at sunset). Below left M. dragging the bull (transitus Mithrae) above the Sun and Moon, between which 4 stars, signifying the astral character assumed by Mithraism - Rome, Musei di Roma. Plate LXXVI Mithra Above left: MITRE OF THE 14TH CENT. Embroidery of Palermitan school - Vatican, Museo Sacro. Above right: MITRE OF WHITE SILK woven with silver and precious stones (late 16th cent.) - Monreale, Cathedral. Plate LXXVII Mitra Left: CRUCIFIXION. Painting by F. Bianchi Ferrari - Modena, Galleria Estense. Plate LXXVIII Archdiocese of Modena Above left: CHURCH OF NOTRE-DAME. A. Perret (1922) - Le Raincy (S. et O.). Above right: CHURCH OF ST. AUGUSTINE. K. P. Tholens - Amsterdam. Below left: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PANTALEON. Giuseppe Valadier - Rome. Below right: UNIVERSITY CHAPEL. M. Piacentini (1948) - Rome. Plate LXXIX Modern Sacred Art Above left: THE "VIRGIN OF THE HOST". Painting by J. D. Ingres - Paris, Louvre. Above right: HOLY FAMILY by G. Previati. Below left: REST OF THE POORELLO. Painting by O. Amato - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Below right: CRUCIFIXION. Painting by R. Rouault, coll. Henry P. Mellhenny. Plate LXXX Modern Sacred Art Above left: ST. SEBASTIAN. Sculpture by F. Messina - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Above right: ST. LUCY. Sculpture by A. Wildt - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Below left: THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Marble sculpture from Siena by the Scuola Beato Angelico (1939) - Lecco, cemetery. Below right: PIETÀ by L. Andreotti. Monument to the Mother - Florence, church of S. Croce. Plate LXXXI Modern Sacred Art Above left: THE PASSION OF CHRIST. Embroidery on linen with wool, silk and gold by L. Lechner (Germany) - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Above right: QUEEN OF ANGELS. Stained glass by Louis - Charles Crespin (Belgium) - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Below left: CRUCIFIX AND STATIONS OF THE CROSS by A. Martinotti (Italy) - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Below right: BAPTISMAL FONT by Jan-Eloj and Leo Brom (Holland) - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art 1950. Plate LXXXII Modern Sacred Art Above left: GOVERNMENT PALACE. Above right: MARKET. Plate LXXXIII Mogadishu, Apostolic Vicariate of Above left: MONFORTE CASTLE built in 1549 by Niccolò Monforte - Campobasso. Above right: ABBEY OF ST. VINCENT ON THE VOLTURNO. Remains of a portico (13th cent.) - Castel S. Vincenzo. Below left: PANORAMA of Montefalcone del Sannio. Below right: PANORAMA of Castel S. Vincenzo. Plate LXXXIV Molise Above left: CHURCH OF THE ANNUNZIATA (14th cent.) - Venafro. Above right: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. EMIDIUS (14th cent.) - Agnone. Below left: DETAIL OF THE FACADE OF THE CATHEDRAL (12th cent.) - Termoli. Below right: PULPIT of the church of S. Maria di Canneto (1223) - Roccavivara. Plate LXXXV Molise Above left: MONK READING BEFORE THE HERMITAGE - Camaldoli (Arezzo). Above right: MONK'S REFECTION IN THE CELL - Miraflores, Charterhouse. Below: FUNERAL PROCESSION OF A BROTHER - Miraflores, Charterhouse. Plate LXXXVI Monachism Left: BENEDICTINE ABBEY OF ETTAL. Plate LXXXVII Munich (München) and Freising, Archdiocese of Above: ENTRANCE OF THE CHAPTER HOUSE (14th cent.) - Staffarda, abbey. Plate LXXXVIII Monastery Above: A) AREOBINDUS. Monogram on consular diptych in ivory (506) - Lucca, treasury of the Cathedral. B) PASCHALIS. Monogram of Paschal I (817-24). Mosaic on the top of the triumphal arch of S. Cecilia - Rome. C) KAROLUS. Subscription and monogram signed by Charlemagne, diploma of 17 July 808 from Aachen - Modena, Archivio di Stato. D) HLUDDOVVICUS. Subscription and monogram signed by Louis the Pious, diploma of 17 Nov. 816 from Compiègne - Siena, Archivio di Stato. E) HEINRICUS DEI GRATIA ROMANORUM IMPERATOR and "signum speciale" of "manu propria". Diploma of Emperor Henry III (1053) - Coblenz, Archivio di Stato. Below: A) JOHANNIS. Monogram of Pope John II (532-34). Panel of the marble enclosure of the presbytery of S. Clemente - Rome. B) TOSALEVOS. Greek monogram of Bishop Julian (6th cent.), capital in S. Vitale - Ravenna. C) SENATOR. Monogram carved on his tombstone (714) - Pavia, Museo civico. Plate LXXXIX Monogram Above: BENEDICTINE CLOISTER ADJOINING THE CATHEDRAL (second half of the 12th cent.). Plate XC Monreale, Archdiocese of Above: THE FORTRESS (15th cent.) - Montalcino. Plate XCI Montalcino, Diocese of Above: RUINS OF THE ABBEY AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT (14 Feb. 1944). Plate XCII Monte Cassino Above left: UPPER CHURCH, interior restored in the 13th cent. - S. Flaviano. Above right: FAÇADE AND SIDE (1262) - S. Flaviano. Below left: LOWER CHURCH begun in 1032, restored in the 14th cent. - S. Flaviano. Below right: PORTA S. LUCIA and entrance to the Collegio delle Benedettine. Plate XCIII Montefiascone, Diocese of Above: PANORAMA OF THE ABBEY. Plate XCIV Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Abbey of Above left: TOWER KNOWN AS «DI PULCINELLA» (15th cent.) - Above right: FAÇADE OF THE CHURCH OF S. MARIA DELLE GRAZIE (16th cent.). Below: INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL on a design by B. Ammannati (16th cent.). Plate XCV Montepulciano, Diocese of Above left: MUNICIPAL LIBRARY (1917). Above right: TOWN HALL (1926). Below left: VIEW OF THE PORT. Below right: HÔTEL-DIEU of Montréal, directed by the Hospitaller Sisters of St. Joseph. Current state of the buildings (1949). Plate XCVI Montréal, Archdiocese of DANCE OF DEATH Plate XCVII Death Above left: THE MONASTERY OF S. SIMONE (14th cent.). Painting by Prince Brailowsky - Vatican City, Congregazione Orientale. Above right: DETAIL OF THE CATHEDRAL OF THE SAVIOUR. Golden grille. Painting by Prince Brailowsky - Vatican City, Congregazione Orientale. Below: THE KREMLIN. Painting by Prince Brailowsky - Vatican City, Congregazione Orientale. Plate XCVIII Mosca MOSES STRIKES THE ROCK Plate XCIX Moses (Mōšeh, Μω[θ]σῆς, Vulg. MoySES, Ancient Latin Moses) Above left: OFFICIA ET MISSÆ. Codex of Silos of the 11th cent. Chants and prayers for the feast of SS. Servando and Germano - London, British Museum, ms. add. 30845, f. 135r. Above right: LIBER ORDINUM. Codex of Silos, f. 168v. (a. 1052). Chant of the Laudes, after the Gospel and Missa omnimoda - Silos, Library of the Monastery. Below left: ANTIPHONARIUS OFFICII ET MISSÆ. Cod. Aemilianus 30, f. 70v (10th cent.). Prayers and chants for the feast of St. Eulalia - Madrid, R. Accademia di storia. Below right: CALENDAR FROM SILOS (a. 1067). Months of Nov.-Dec. - Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, new acquisitions, ms. lat. 2171. Plate C Mozarabic Rite THE VIRGIN AND THE CHILD JESUS Plate CI Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban Around: the twelve Apostles, the thrones and the altars. Mosaic of the 5th cent. - Ravenna, Baptistery. Plate CII Mosaic BAPTISTERY OF THE BASILICA OF S. MARCO with mosaic decoration (12th cent.) - Venice. Plate CIII Mosaic DETAIL OF THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN, attributed Plate CIV Mosaic Above: GALLERY OF THE BRACCIO NUOVO of the Vatican Museums. Example of a neoclassical museum. Plate CV Museum and Museology THE MADONNA Plate CVI Nanni d'Antonio di Banco Above left: PANORAMA. Above right: VOMERO AND CASTEL S. ELMO FROM THE AIR. The castle is of 1340, transformed in 1540. Below left: ROYAL PALACE on a design by Domenico Fontana (1600-1602) modified by L. Vanvitelli and enlarged by Gaetano Genovese (1841). Façade towards the sea. Below right: MASCHIO ANGIOINO FROM THE AIR. Begun in 1280, enlarged in the 15th and 16th cent. Plate CVII Naples, Archdiocese of Above left: CHURCH OF S. FRANCESCO DI PAOLA. Work by Pietro Bianchi (1817-46) - Naples. Above right: CHURCH OF THE INCORONATA MADRE DEL BUON CONSIGLIO - Naples. Below left: INTERIOR OF THE BASILICA OF S. RESTITUTA (4th cent., transformed in the 18th cent.) - Naples. Below right: UNIVERSITY PALACE. P. Paolo Quaglia and G. Melisurgo (1897-1908) - Naples. Plate CVIII Naples, Archdiocese of Left: CHRISTIAN CHARITY. Painting by B. Schedoni (ca. 1610) - Naples, Pinacoteca. Plate CIX Naples, Archdiocese of Above: ORATORY OF S. GIOVENALE (4th cent.). Plate CX Narni, Diocese of BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN Plate CXI Nativity of Mary, Saint Above: EPISODES FROM THE DIVINE COMEDY. Frescoes by J. A. Kock - Rome, Villa Lancellotti (Massimo). Below: EPISODES FROM ORLANDO FURIOSO. L. Schwarz von Carolsfeld - Rome, Villa Lancellotti (Massimo). Plate CXII Nazarenes Above: APOTHEOSIS OF HOMER. J.-A. Ingres (1827) - Paris, Louvre. Below: APOTHEOSIS OF NAPOLEON. Fresco by A. Appiani (1808) - Milan, ceiling in the Council Hall of the Royal Palace. Plate CXIII Neoclassicism Left: MADONNA WITH CHILD - Siena, Galleria dell'Accademia. Plate CXIV Neroccio di Bartolomeo Landi MADONNA WITH CHILD (1478). Plate CXV Niccolò dell'Arca TOMB OF POPE NICHOLAS V - Vatican Grottoes. Plate CXVI Nicholas V, Pope Above left: ST. NICHOLAS OF MYRA. 14th-cent. image offered by King Marash of Serbia - Bari, church of S. Nicola. Above right: SILVER ALTAR AND TOMB OF ST. NICHOLAS - Bari. Below: MIRACLES OF ST. NICHOLAS. Painting by Beato Angelico and assistants - Vatican, Pinacoteca. Plate CXVII Nicholas, Bishop Of Myra, Saint DETAIL OF THE PULPIT OF THE CATHEDRAL Plate CXVIII Nicola Pisano FACADE OF THE BASILICA OF S. NICOLA Plate CXIX Nicola of Tolentino, Saint Above: THE MAGI - Ondo Florin. Below: SCHOOL OF DECORATIVE PAINTING AND CRAFTS for girls at Ifuho (Calabar). Plate CXX Nigeria Above: FRESCO REPRESENTING JERUSALEM (2nd half of the 4th cent.) - Cimitile, basilica of S. Felice. Below: CAPITALS OF THE AEDICULA OF S. FELICE (2nd half of the 4th cent.) - Cimitile, basilica of S. Felice. Plate CXXI Nola, Diocese of Above: ABBEY CHURCH seen from the apses (founded in the 8th cent., rebuilt in the 12th cent.) - Nonantola. Plate CXXII Nonantola, Abbey Nullius Of Above left: ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN "FJORDS" of the west coast, the Geirangerfjord. Above right: EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH - Mo-i-Rana (northern Norway). Below left: OLD WOODEN HOUSES - Oslo, Folk Art Museum. Below right: THE CITY HALL - Oslo. Plate CXXIII Norway CONSTANTINIAN, POST-CONSTANTINIAN AND BYZANTINE COINS: 1-3) small bronzes of Constantine the Great; 4) gold solidus of Galla Placidia; 5) small bronze of Constans I; 6) gold solidus of Galla Placidia; 7-8) gold solidi of Valentinian III; 9-10) bronzes of Magnentius; 11-12) gold solidi of Anthemius; 13) small bronze of Valentinian I; 14) gold solidus of Valentinian III; 15) gold solidus of Eudocia (wife of the preceding); 16) gold semissis of Valentinian III; 17) third of a gold solidus of Olybrius; 18) third of a gold solidus of Valentinian III; 19) silver medallion of Honorius; 20) gold solidus of Justinian II (685-95); 21) gold solidus of Justinian II; 22) gold solidus of John I Tzimiskes (969-76) - Rome, Gipsoteca of Dr. S. L. Cesano. Plate CXXIV Numismatics (1. Enc. l'ull.) Plate CXXV Numismatics PAPAL COINS: 1) silver denaro of Pope Adrian I (772-95); 2) silver denaro of monogrammatic type of Leo III and Charlemagne (795-814); 3) silver grosso of Brancaleone d'Andalò, senator of Rome (1253-56); 4) silver grosso of Boniface IX (1389-1404); 5) gold ducat of Nicholas V (1447-55); 6) silver reinforced grosso of Martin V (1417-47); 7) silver grosso of Eugene IV (1431-47); 8) silver grosso of Callixtus III (1455-58); 9) silver grosso of Pius II (1458-64); 10) gold ducat of Paul II (1464-71); 11) gold double ducat of Julius II (1503-13) - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate CXXVI Papal Roman Numismatics PAPAL COINS: 1) gold two-and-a-half ducats of Leo X (1513-21); 2) silver triple giulio of Leo X; 3) silver giulio of Leo X; 4) silver quarter ducat of Clement VII (1523-34), from Castel S. Angelo; 5) one-and-a-half giulio of Clement VII; 6) rev. of silver testone of Pius V (1566-72); 7) rev. of silver testone of Gregory XIII (1572-85); 8) testone of Sixtus V (1585-90); 9) rev. of testone of Paul V (1605-21); 10) rev. of gold quadrupla of Innocent XI (1676-89); 11) rev. of gold quadrupla of Alexander VIII (1689-91); 12) rev. of gold quadrupla of Innocent XII (1691-1700); 13) rev. of silver giulio of Alexander VII (1655-67); 14) rev. of silver half scudo of Innocent XI (1676-89) - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate CXXVII Papal Roman Numismatics PAPAL COINS: 1) rev. of silver piastra of Sixtus V (1585-90); 2) silver scudo of Alexander VII (1655-67); 3) rev. of silver scudo of Urban VIII (1623-44); 4) rev. of silver scudo of Clement IX (1667-69); 5-6) rev. of silver scudo of Clement X (1670-76); 7) rev. of silver half scudo of Innocent XII (1691-1700); 8) rev. of silver scudo of Innocent XII; 9) rev. of silver scudo of Clement XI (1700-21); 10) rev. of silver half scudo of Innocent XIII (1721-24); 11) rev. of silver scudo of Clement XI - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate CXXVIII Papal Roman Numismatics MADONNA AMONG ANGELS Plate, p. 71 Mary, Most Holy Detail of the ancient icon found under the image of the Madonna venerated in the church of St. Mary Nova (the dating remains uncertain between the 5th-8th cent.) - Rome. Plate, p. 93 Mary, Most Holy (Int. Pizzo) Plate, p. 397 Melozzo da Forlì (1st Pict.) Plate, p. 559 Michelangelo Buonarroti (in autographs Michelagnolo) MICHELANGELO - Vault of the Sistine Chapel. Plate, p. 567 MARTYRDOM OF ST. PAUL Plate, p. 619 Illumination historical of the diffusion of the Order in the 18th cent., compiled by Fr. G. Moretti according to G. Roberti, Disegno storico dell'Or Plate, p. 626 Min II Plate, p. 627

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