Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plates · Volume IX (1952)

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The volume's full-page plates, in their printed numbering. Each plate also appears in the entry it illustrates.

Above: ACTORS: The Madonna; St. Joseph. Plate I Oberammergau Above: NATIVES GOING TO MASS, in a wooden chapel built in the bush - Village of the Solomon Islands. Below: DWELLINGS OF THE NASIOI, built on platforms to defend themselves from wild beasts. The plant surrounded by a trellis, on the right, marks the place of cremation of a corpse, which will be cut down at the end of the funeral rites, after years - Solomon Islands. Plate III Oceania FRONTISPIECE of the Bibliotheca cluniacensis. Paris 1614: it depicts the great abbots of Cluny: Odo, Maiolus, Odilo, Hugh and Peter the Venerable - Copy from the Vatican Library. Plate IV Oddone of Cluny, Saint Above left: JEWISH TOMBS AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIVES - Jerusalem. Above right: MOUNT OF OLIVES. Eastern slope with the first stretch of the Jericho road. Below: MOUNT OF OLIVES and Mount Moriah (of the Temple), seen from the ancient Ophel. Plate V Mount Olivet BYZANTINE OMOPHORION with sacred scenes, in embroidery, probably of the 13th cent. Cross at top left: Nativity, Annunciation, Baptism. Cross at top right: Feast of All Saints, Transfiguration, Palms. Cross at bottom left: Crucifixion, Presentation, Dormitio Virginis. Cross at bottom right: Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost. At top right, under the cross: Image of Christ King of Kings. In the horizontal bands: The chariot of the glory of the triumphant Lord. Inscription, from left to right: «This o. belongs to the Most Sacred Metropolitan of Old Patras, more than Venerable, and Exarch of all Achaia, Don Theophanes in the year 7126 indiction 1st Apr. and of Christ 1618». This last date refers to the moment when the o. came into the possession of the Metropolitan of Patras - Grottaferrata, abbey - Treasury. Plate VI Omophorion (by cartena of p. Sparroquiere) Plate VII Onah Above left: LATIN UNCIAL (5th cent.): letter of St. Cyprian - Vatican Library, cod. Vat. lat. 10959, f. 1r. Above right: SEMI-UNCIAL (before 509-10): Explicit of the Liber in Constantium of St. Hilary of Poitiers - Vatican Library. Arch. Cap. S. Pietro, Basilicanus D 182, f. 288r. Below left: SEMI-UNCIAL CALLED OF URSICINUS of the scriptorium of Verona (early 7th cent.): Acta Concilii Calcedonensis; end of the IV and beginning of the V session - Vatican Library, Vat. lat. 1322, f. 136v. Below right: LATIN UNCIAL (mid-8th cent.): Capitula of the Ep. to the Romans - Vatican Library, cod. Reg. lat. 9, f. 7r. Plate VIII Uncial and Semi-Uncial Scripts Left: ORANTE DEFUNTA. Fresco of the 2nd half of the 3rd cent. - Rome, cemetery of St. Callixtus. Plate IX Orante Left: ST. BERNARDINO PREACHES BEFORE THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS. Painting by Sano di Pietro (15th cent.) - Siena, Cathedral, chapter hall. Right: HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL SCHUSTER READS THE GOSPEL BEFORE THE HOMILY during a pontifical. Milan, Cathedral. Plate X Sacred Oratory Left: EASTERN PRIESTLY ORDINATION. Armenian miniature (1248) - Venice, Library of the Mechitarist Fathers, cod. 1637. Plate XI Order and Ordination Left: EMBLEM OF THE ORDER. Mosaic representing Our Lord between two prisoners on the main door of the Hospital of St. Thomas in Formis (13th cent.) - Rome. Right: VIEW OF THE CONVENT OF CERFROID in 1633. Copper engraving. Plate XII Order of the Most Holy Trinity Above left: INCIPIT OF ORDO I (late 11th cent.) - Vatican Library, cod. Ottob. lat. 312, f. 137v. Plate XIII Roman Orders Above left: DORIC ORDER. Columns of the temple of the Dioscuri (6th cent. B.C.) - Agrigento. Above right: IONIC ORDER. Temple of Athena «Apteros» (5th cent. B.C.) - Athens. Below left: LOGGIA OF THE CARYATIDS (late 5th cent. B.C.) - Erechtheion, Acropolis of Athens. Below right: CORINTHIAN ORDER. The Olympieion (530 B.C.) - Athens. Plate XIV Architectural Orders Above left: CHASED SILVER RELIQUARY (5th cent.) - Grado, Cathedral. Above right: SILVER PLATE found at Canoscio (Città di Castello) with inscription in honor of the martyr Agapitus (5th cent.). Below left: CROSS IN SOLID GOLD WITH GEMS AND FILIGREE (7th cent.) from the Sancta Sanctorum (rear side) - Vatican Library, Museo Sacro. Below right: SILVER SHRINE OFFERED BY POPE GREGORY IV (827-44) for reliquary of the head of St. Sebastian - Rome, Vatican Library, Museo Sacro. Plate XV Goldsmithing Above left: PEDESTAL FOR CROSS, with scenes from the Old Testament and the four Evangelists, Plate XVI Goldsmithing Above left: CARTAGLORIA in embossed silver (17th cent.) - Parma, church of the Steccata, Treasury. Plate XVII Goldsmithing A) PORTATIVE 14TH CENT. From the Tacuinum sanitatis, cod. of the Bibl. naz. of Paris. The number of sounding pipes on each key increases from the low to the high. B) PORTATIVE: traces of 3 knobs for registers. Detail of the Coronation of the Virgin by Marco Catarino (1367-82) - Venice, Accademia. C) PORTATIVE: traces of 3 knobs for registers or drones. Detail of the Coronation of the Virgin by Lorenzo Veneziano (1357-72) - Milan, Brera. D) POSITIVE OF MARCO CASTELLANO (15th cent.). Inlay of the Palazzo Jucaie of Urbino. E) PORTATIVE: pipes arranged in a mitre. Detail of the Madonna and Child by Giovanni Boccati (1445-80) - Perugia, Pinacoteca Vannucci. F) ITALIAN POSITIVE of the 16th cent. - London, Victoria and Albert Museum. G) POSITIVE OF CARLO PRATI of ca. 1650. The friezes are not original. H) MASCIONI CONSOLE FOR THE MASCIONI-TAMBURINI ORGAN (1938) - Milan, Cathedral. Plate XVIII Organ Above left: ORGAN OF LORENZO DI GIACOMO (1471) in original Gothic case with Baroque superstructures - Bologna, church of St. Petronius. Above right: ORGAN OF THE CHURCH OF ST. DOMINIC (18th cent.) - Orihuela (Alicante). Below left: ORGAN OF CARLO PRATI (1694), from the church of the Inviolata in Riva. Below right: GREAT ORGAN OF G. GABLER (built 1737-50) - Weingarten, Abbey. Plate XIX Organ Left: INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS AT YAROSLAVL. Painting by Prince Brailowsky - Vatican City, S. Congregazione Orientale. Plate XX Christian East Left: THE EMPEROR NICEPHORUS AGAINST THE BULGARIANS commanded by Prince Krum. Miniature of the 14th cent. - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. slav. 2, f. 145e. Right: THE RUSSIANS INVADE THE EASTERN EMPIRE. Equestrian battle. Miniature of the 14th cent. - Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. slav. 2, f. 178 e. Plate XXI Empire of the East Above left: THE AUTOMATON CALLED "MAURIZIO" of the clock tower. Bronze of the 14th cent. - Orvieto. Above right: CLOCK TOWER by M. Coducci (1496-99); side buildings by P. Lombardo (1506). The "Moors" that strike the hours were cast by Ambrogio dell'Ancore (1497) - Venice. Below left: CLOCK OF THE CONVENT OF THE FILIPPINI. On a design by Francesco Borromini (1649) - Rome. Below right: CLOCK BY C. FANZAGO (17th cent.) - Clusone (Bergamo). Tower of the Town Hall. Plate XXII Clock Above: GENERAL VIEW OF THE SANCTUARY OF OROPA. Plate XXIII Oropa, Sanctuary of Above: MARTYRDOM OF ST. URSULA. Miniature by G. Vrelant (15th cent.). Below: DETAIL OF THE STORIES OF ST. URSULA. Painting by V. Carpaccio (1490-1515) - Venice, Galleria dell'Accademia. Plate XXIV Saint Ursula, Martyr Above left: CHRIST BLESSING. Wooden statue attributed to Ramo di Paganello (late 13th cent.) or to Lorenzo Maitani (14th cent.) - Orvieto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Above right: THE VIRGIN ENTHRONED. Detail of the monument to Card. Guillaume de Braye. Work by Arnolfo di Cambio (late 13th cent.) - Orvieto, church of St. Dominic. Below left: CHOIR STALLS in carved wood (1414-31) - Orvieto, Cathedral. Below right: MARBLE HOLY WATER STOUP by Antonio Federighi (1485) - Orvieto, Cathedral. Plate XXV Orvieto, Diocese of Above left: EXTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL. On a design by Lorenzo Maitani (early 14th cent.) - Orvieto. Above right: PALACE OF THE POPES, now Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (14th cent.) - Orvieto. Below left: THE PALACE OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE PEOPLE (13th cent.) - Orvieto. Below right: RUINS OF THE ANCIENT FORTRESS (1364) - Orvieto. Plate XXVI Orvieto, Diocese of Above: PANORAMA OF THE PORT. Plate XXVII Oslo Left: ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY of Rome (Monte Mario). Visual equatorial and observation dome. Right, above: OBSERVATORY of Washington. Right, below: OBSERVATORY TOWER of Gallici, called la Specola - Padua. Plate XXVIII Astronomical Observatories Above left: MONSTRANCE in brass of North Italian type (15th cent.) - Milan, basilica of St. Ambrose. Above centre: MONSTRANCE donated by the city of Milan to Leo XIII. Above is reproduced Bernini's baldachin - Rome, Treasury of St. Peter. Above right: MONSTRANCE (early 15th cent.) - Rossano, Cathedral. Below left: MONSTRANCE in gilded silver. Work by Domenico Maluzo (1722) - Toscolano, parish church. Below right: MONSTRANCE in gilded silver and sgraffito, ivory and precious stones (1949) - Rome, Seminario Lombardo. Plate XXIX Ostensorium Above: CHRISTIAN BASILICA (4th cent.). Below: EAST SIDE OF THE CITY. Plate XXX Ostia Above: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. CATHERINE (13th cent.) - Galatina. Plate XXXI Otranto, Archdiocese of Above: MARIAN CONGRESS of Ottawa (2 July 1947). High altar and decoration for the Midnight Mass. Below: UNIVERSITY BUILDING. Central building, seat of the administration - Ottawa. Plate XXXII Ottawa, Archdiocese of Above left: PAX IN SILVER ORNAMENTED WITH PEARLS. French art 14th cent. - Paris, Louvre Museum. Above right: PAX IN SILVER AND NIELLO, with the Coronation of the Virgin. Work by M. Finiguerra (1452) - Florence, Museo nazionale. Below left: PAX OF SIENA. Detail representing the Virgin (1464) - Arezzo, Cathedral. Below right: PAX IN METAL (16th cent.) - Venice, basilica of St. Mark, Treasury. Plate XXXIII Peace Above left: THE CATHEDRAL TOWER (12th cent.) of Soest (diocese of P.) next to the church of St. Nicholas. Plate XXXIV Paderborn, Archdiocese of Above left: CHURCH OF THE ABBEY OF PRAGLIA, begun in 1490 on a design by Tullio Lombardo and completed in 1548 - Padua. Plate XXXV Padua, Diocese of Above left: HALL OF THE ANTONIAN LIBRARY. Work by F. Focchi (1698) - Padua, convent of St. Anthony. Above right: CHAPEL OF ST. ANTHONY. Begun by Andrea Briasco, completed by J. Sansovino and by G. M. Falconetto (1533-46) - Padua, church of the Saint. Below left: LOGGIA DEL CONSIGLIO OR GRAN GUARDIA (15th-16th cent.) - Padua. Below right: COURTYARD OF THE UNIVERSITY. On a design by Andrea della Valle (mid 16th cent.) - Padua. Plate XXXVI Padua, Diocese of Above left: A CANAL. Painting by van der Meer (17th cent.) - London, National Gallery. Above right: BUILDING OF THE B. I. M. - The Hague. Below left: CATHEDRAL OF ST. BAVO (now Protestant) 14th cent. - Haarlem. Below right: THE DIKE - Zuiderzee. Plate XXXVII Netherlands Above left: THE BENEDICITE. Painting by N. Maes (17th cent.) - Paris, Louvre Museum. Above right: THE ANGEL RAPHAEL LEAVES TOBIAS. Painting by Rembrandt van Ryn (17th cent.) - Paris, Louvre Museum. Below left: AT THE WINDOW. Painting by A. van Ostade (17th cent.) - Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi. Below right: THE MUSIC LESSON. G. Metsu (17th cent.) - Paris, Louvre Museum. Plate XXXVIII Netherlands Above left: PANORAMA OF THE OLD CITY - Multan. Above right: RAILWAY STATION - Multan. Plate XXXIX Pakistan Above left: PRE-FRANCONIAN NOTATION (13th cent.) - Bamberg, Library, ms. Ed. IV 6, f. 64ᵛ. Plate XL Musical Paleography Above left: PORTA NUOVA (rebuilt in 1535) - Palermo. Above right: CHIARA-MONTE PALACE CALLED LO STERI (erected in 1307). Below left: CHURCH AND TOWER OF THE CASTLE (15th cent.) - S. Niccolò dell'Arena (Palermo). Below right: REMAINS OF THE SO-CALLED GYMNASIUM - Solunto. Plate XLI Palermo, Archdiocese of Above left: CHURCH OF THE VESPERS (12th cent.) - Palermo. Above right: SIDE AND TRANSEPT OF THE CATHEDRAL (12th and 15th cent.) - Palermo. Below left: INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF CASA PROFESSA. Frescoes by Filippo Randazzo (1743) and stuccoes from the school of Serpotta - Palermo. Below right: INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF S. DOMENICO (founded in the 14th cent., rebuilt in 1636). Pantheon of illustrious Sicilians - Palermo. Plate XLII Palermo, Archdiocese of Above left: KIRIATH-JEARIM with the Sanctuary of the Virgin «Fœderia arca». Above right: PLAIN OF MAGDALA. Below left: PANORAMA OF THE MODERN TOWN OF CANA (Kefr Kennah). Below right: CARMELITE CONVENT FROM MOUNT CARMEL. Plate XLIII Palestine Above left: MOUNT OF THE BEATITUDES with the Sanctuary erected by the «Italica Gens». Above right: A STREET IN BETHLEHEM. Below from left to right: VIEW OF THE BASILICA OF THE NATIVITY and MARKET SCENE - Bethlehem. Plate XLIV Palestine Above left: ROAD FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO. Ascent of Adummin. Above right: THE JORDAN. Below left: AIN KARIM. Below right: FOUNTAIN OF MOSES ('Ajn Mûsâ) - Mount Nebo. Plate XLV Palestine Above: FRAGMENT FROM THE BILINGUAL VIRGIL, GREEK AND LATIN (5th-6th cent.). Egyptian codex palimpsest several times. Arabic the most recent upper text. The photo is placed in the direction of the first writing - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Below: A PALIMPSEST LEAF OF THE GOTHIC ULFILAS (5th-6th cent.). The upper text contains the commentary of St. Jerome on Isaiam, XIII, 49: PL 24, 469. The photo is placed in the direction of the first writing - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, S 45 sup. Plate XLVI Palimpsest Above: EMBROIDERED ANTEPENDIUM. Above: Madonna and Child between two angels and six apostles; below: The Crucifixion between scenes from the lives of Sts. Paul and Peter (13th cent.) - Anagni, Treasury of the Cathedral. Below: ALTAR IN EMBOSSED AND CHASED GOLD AND SILVER WITH GEMS. Work by Vuolvinius (824-59). Front side - Milan, basilica of S. Ambrogio. Plate XLVII Palliotto (Pallium, Pannus; Antealtare, Frontale, Antependium) A) EMBROIDERED ANTEPENDIUM: Mary with Child between the archangels Gabriel and Michael: at the feet of the Virgin, the donor is kneeling. Gift of Otto I von Grandson to the cathedral of Lausanne (early 14th cent.) - Bern, Historical Museum. B) EMBROIDERED ANTEPENDIUM WITH SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JESUS; from left to right: Agony in the garden, before Pilate, carries the Cross, Crucifixion, Ascension, Coronation of Mary, Christ the Judge. In the border Christ crowns Mary between praying and music-making angels. Gift of Duke Albert II of Austria to the monastery of Königsfelden (1st half of the 14th cent.) - Bern, Historical Museum. C) ALTAR ANTEPENDIUM IN TAPESTRY. Dead Christ with angels; design by Alessandro Allori (1535-1607). Gift of Grand Duke Ferdinand I to Clement VIII. Florence workshop - Biblioteca Vaticana, Christian Museum, chapel of St. Pius V. D) ANTEPENDIUM OF THE HIGH ALTAR OF THE CHURCH OF S. EUGENIO (1952), bronze by Attilio Selva - Rome. Plate XLVIII Palliotto (Pallium, Pannus; Antealtare, Frontale, Antependium) Above left: VILLA CALLED «LA ROTONDA» (1552) - Vicenza. Above right: CHIERICATI PALACE (1566), now Civic Museum - Vicenza. Plate XLIX Palladio, Andrea Above left: NATIVE BRIDGE that joins the islands of Nargana and «Sacred Heart». In the background one sees the island of Nargana with the chapel and the house of the Franciscan Tertiaries of Penance - Darien, apostolic vicariate. Above right: AN ORCHESTRA IN THE MISSION OF NARGANA (apostolic vicariate of Darien), established by the Franciscan Tertiaries of Penance. Below left: BIG FISHING AT OTOQUE - Darien, apostolic vicariate. Below right: «THE GOOD DEVILS» dancing in procession to honor the Madonna - Darien, apostolic vicariate. Plate L Panama Left: WOODEN STATUE OF THE 13TH CENT., attributed to the school of Nicola Pisano - Rome, basilica of S. Paolo. Plate LII Paul, Apostle, Saint DOOR OF THE OSTIENSE BASILICA by A. Marini (1928-30): left, the Saint on the road to Damascus; right, the Saint in prison and his martyrdom - Rome. Plate LIII Paul, Apostle, Saint Above: BULL OF PAUL II inspired by the lead seals of the Venetian doges (recto and verso). Privilege in favor of the collegiate church of S. Orso (Aosta) of 14 March 1465. Below: DETAIL OF THE MONUMENT sculpted by Mino da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata (last decades 15th cent.) - Rome, basilica of S. Pietro. Plate LIV Paul II, Pope Left: PAUL III AMONG HIS NEPHEWS CARD. ALESSANDRO AND OTTAVIO FARNESE. Painted by Titian - Naples, Pinacoteca of the National Museum. Plate LV Paolo Iii E Iv Above: THE UNIVERSAL FLOOD. Fresco in the cloister of S. Maria Novella - Florence. Plate LVI Paolo Uccello Left: ST. MENAS - Modena, Pinacoteca nazionale. Plate LVII Paolo Veronese PORTRAITS OF THE POPES REPRODUCED ON MEDALS STRUCK DURING THE INDIVIDUAL PONTIFICATES. 1. Nicholas V; 2. Callixtus III; 3. Pius II; 4. Paul II; 5. Sixtus IV; 6. Innocent VIII; 7. Alexander VI; 8. Julius II; 9. Leo X; 10. Adrian VI; 11. Clement VII; 12. Paul III - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LVIII Pope PORTRAITS OF THE POPES REPRODUCED ON MEDALS STRUCK DURING THE INDIVIDUAL PONTIFICATES. 1. Julius III; 2. Marcellus II; 3. Paul IV; 4. Pius IV; 5. Pius V; 6. Gregory XIII; 7. Sixtus V; 8. Urban VII; 9. Gregory XIV; 10. Innocent IX; 11. Clement VIII; 12. Leo XI - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LIX Pope PORTRAITS OF THE POPES REPRODUCED ON MEDALS STRUCK DURING THE INDIVIDUAL PONTIFICATES. 1. Paul V; 2. Gregory XV; 3. Urban VIII; 4. Innocent X; 5. Alexander VII; 6. Clement IX; 7. Clement X; 8. Innocent XI; 9. Alexander VIII; 10. Innocent XII; 11. Clement XI; 12. Innocent XIII - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LX Pope PORTRAITS OF THE POPES REPRODUCED ON MEDALS STRUCK DURING THE INDIVIDUAL PONTIFICATES. 1. Benedict XIII; 2. Clement XII; 3. Benedict XIV; 4. Clement XIII; 5. Clement XIV; 6. Pius VI; 7. Pius VII; 8. Leo XII; 9. Pius VIII; 10. Gregory XVI; 11. Pius IX; 12. Leo XIII - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LXI Pope PORTRAITS OF THE POPES REPRODUCED ON MEDALS STRUCK DURING THE INDIVIDUAL PONTIFICATES. 1. Pius X; 2. Benedict XV; 3. Pius XI; 4. Pius XII. PAPAL MEDALS. 1. Paul II: recto and verso of the large medal of 1466 (unknown author); 2. Paul II, on the verso the tribune of St. Peter's (attributed to Cristoforo di Geremia); 3. Paul II, on the verso Palazzo Venezia (attributed to Cristoforo di Geremia) - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LXII Pope (fut. Enc. Catt.) Plate LXIII Pope PAPAL MEDALS. 1. Paul III: on the verso «dominus custodit» (attrib. to Leone Leoni); 2. Paul III: on the verso «omnes reges servient ei» (by Grechetto); 3. Julius III: on the verso «anglia resurgens» (by Cavino); 4. Julius III: on the verso «cratumai» (by Cesati); 5. Paul IV: on the verso the Calvary (by De Rossi) - Medagliere Vaticano. Plate LXIV Pope (fut. Enc. Catt.) Plate LXV Pope Left: THE PRESBYTERY OF THE EUPHRASIAN BASILICA (6th cent.) - Parenzo. Plate LXVI Poreč, Diocese of Above left: THE LUXEMBOURG (begun in 1615). Above right: COURTYARD OF THE INSTITUT CATHOLIQUE. Below left: THE CHURCH OF VAL-DE-GRACE (1645-65), arch. F. Mansard. Below right: HOTEL DE SENS (begun in 1475). Plate LXVII Paris, Archdiocese of Above left: VIEW OF PARIS WITH NOTRE-DAME. Above right: PLACE DE LA CONCORDE. Below left: COURTYARD OF THE SORBONNE, rebuilt between 1885-89 by the architect H.-P. Nenot. Below right: THE OPERA, arch. Charles Garnier (1862-75). Plate LXVIII Paris, Archdiocese of Above left: CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART AT MONTMARTRE (1876-1919), monumental ramp. Above right: La S.te CHAPELLE (14th cent.). Below left: EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, built in 1873 by the architect Delebarre de Bay. Below right: CHURCH OF THE SORBONNE (1635), arch. J. Lemercier. Plate LXIX Paris, Archdiocese of Above left: BISHOP'S PALACE (13th cent. with modern restorations) - Parma. Above right: THE NATIONAL ORPHANAGE of Fontanellato (Parma), inaugurated on 29 June 1950. Below left: VIEW OF THE CATHEDRAL FROM THE APSE (12th cent.) - Parma. Below right: EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE S.MA ANNUNZIATA, on a design by G. B. Fornovo (1566) - Parma. Plate LXX Parma, Diocese of Above left: PASTORAL STAFF WITH ANNUNCIATION, with Limoges enamels (14th cent.) - Vatican, Museo Sacro. Above right: PASTORAL STAFF OF BISHOP MAFFEO VALLARESCO (1460) - Zara, Cathedral. Below left: PASTORAL STAFF OF 1500 - Vercelli, Cathedral. Below right: PASTORAL STAFF in gilded silver, engraved ivory and precious stones (1950). Work of the Scuola B. Angelico of Milan - Pontida, Abbey. Plate LXXI Pastoral Staff (Baculus, understood as Pastoralis; Cambuta, Ferula) PATEN, chalice and fistulae of ca. 1180 formerly kept in the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wiltener (Innsbruck) - Vienna, Kunsthistorichen Museum. Plate LXXII Paten Above: FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL (1117-55) - Pavia. Plate LXXIII Pavia Left: EVE EATS THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND OFFERS IT TO ADAM. Detail of the left portal of Notre-Dame (13th cent.) - Paris. Centre: ADAM AND EVE CONDEMNED TO LABOUR. Fresco by Paolo Uccello (1st half of the 15th cent.) - Florence, church of S. Maria Novella, green cloister. Right: ADAM AND EVE TEMPTED BY THE SERPENT, Biamantino (16th cent.) - Milan, raccolta Ferrario. Plate LXXIV Original Sin Above left: KIOSK IN THE FORM OF A SHIP IN THE IMPERIAL GARDEN. Above right: OLD LUKON BRIDGE, in a suburb west of Beijing. Built under the Tsin dynasty (265-420 of the Christian era), mentioned by Marco Polo. Below left: CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY «FUJEN». Below right: SEMINARY OF THE LAZARIST FATHERS (1923) - Chala, near Beijing. Plate LXXV Pechino, Archdiocese of Above left: SHINTO PILGRIMAGE in Tokyo. Above right: BUDDHIST PILGRIMAGE at Kanazawa (Japan, Nagoya) on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The bonzes file through the crowd of the faithful. Below left: MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE in Pakistan. Below right: HINDU PILGRIMAGE. Procession of the great allegorical carts of the deities. In the foreground the typical carts and wagons used to reach the pilgrimage sites - Cuttak (India). Plate LXXVI Pilgrimage PELICAN AS SYMBOL OF CHRIST THE REDEEMER. Left: Crucifix. Painting of the Giotto school (13th cent.) - Florence, church of S. Felice. Right: Crucifix attributed to Masolino da Panicale (between 1427-35) - Pinacoteca Vaticana. Plate LXXVII Pelican Above left: DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES. Mosaic (12th cent.) - Monreale, presbytery of the Cathedral. Above right: DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE VIRGIN AND THE APOSTLES. Miniature of an Antiphonary of the 15th cent. - Florence, Cathedral. Below: DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UPON THE APOSTLES. On the left the dove on the Divine Throne from which the rays depart. Below between the windows are depicted the peoples present at the first preaching of the Apostles - Venice, mosaic of the church of S. Marco (12th cent.). Plate LXXVIII Pentecost Above left: REMAINS OF SUSA, ancient capital. Above right: TOMB OF DARIUS THE GREAT - Nagsch-e-Rostem. Below left: MOSQUE OF SOLTANICH (14th cent.) on the road to Tabriz. Below right: CHALDEAN CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOSEPH IN BABYLONIAN STYLE. Consecrated on 7 July 1950 by His Beatitude the Chaldean Catholic patriarch Mons. Giuseppe VII Ghanima. Plate LXXIX Persia Above left: ABANDONED CITY OF MACHU PICCHU, discovered in 1911 (pre-Columbian age). View of the north-west quarter, which archaeologists believe was the industrial part. In the background the Huayna Picchu. Above right: THE VILLAGE OF OLLANTAYTAMBO, in the Vilanota valley (Cuzco). In the foreground are remains of an Inca or pre-Inca fortress. Below left: RUINS OF THE CITY OF PACHACAMAC, in the province of Lima (pre-Columbian age). Below right: ASPECTS OF THE PERUVIAN PLAIN. The small Lake of Tingo formed by sulphurous waters. Plate LXXX Peru Above left: ROTUNDA OF S. ANGELO, built in the 6th cent. with restorations of the 14th cent. Above right: TOWN HALL OR PALAZZO DEI PRIORI (completed in 1297). Below left: INTERIOR OF THE CLOISTER of the convent of S. Giuliana (ca. 1320). Below right: PORTA S. PIETRO. Work by Agostino di Duccio (1475). Plate LXXXI Perugia, Archdiocese of Above: CRUCIFIXION. At the foot of the Cross the Magdalene; on the left St. Bernard and the Virgin Mary; on the right, St. Benedict and St. John the Evangelist - Florence, convent of S. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi; Chapter house. Below: DELIVERY OF THE KEYS (central part; ca. 1483). Fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Plate LXXXII Perugino, Pietro Vannucci detto Il Left: PETRARCH STRUCK BY LOVE and crowned by a maiden. Miniature of the Lombard school of the 15th cent.: Plate LXXXIII Petrarch, Francesco PALAZZO FARNESE. Plate LXXXIV Piacenza Left: CHASUBLE IN RED SILK EMBROIDERED IN GOLD, from the vestments of Boniface VIII (13th cent.) - Anagni, Treasury of the Cathedral. Right: CHASUBLE IN WHITE SILK WITH EMBROIDERY ON CHINESE MOTIFS (Suore Ausiliatrici del Purgatorio) - Rome, Mostra d'arte missionaria del 1950, China. Plate LXXXV Planet (Planeta, Casula, Amphibolus) Left: CHASUBLE OF RED BROCADE WITH EMBROIDERY (16th cent.) - Perugia, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Plate LXXXVI Planet (Planeta, Casula, Amphibolus) Above left: SOUTH SIDE AND BELL TOWER OF S. MARTINO DI LIRAMO (11th cent.) - Ciriè. Above right: COURTYARD OF THE PALACE OF ANNA D'ALENCON (13th cent.) - Casale Monferrato. Below left: FACADE OF THE PARISH CHURCH WITH TERRACOTTA DECORATIONS (1415-29) - Chivasso. Below right: ATRIUM AND GRAND STAIRCASE OF PALAZZO MADAMA. Work by F. Juvara (1718-21) - Turin. Plate LXXXVII Piedmont Above left: ST. NICHOLAS APPEARS TO THE PILGRIMS and makes them disperse the pestilential oil. Fresco of the 13th cent. - Novalesa, chapel of S. Eldrado. Above right: THE NATIVITY. Fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari (1531-33) - Vercelli, church of S. Cristoforo. Below left: ST. ANDREW, ST. CATHERINE AND ST. SEBASTIAN. Painting by Defendente Ferrari (1518-35) - Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera. Below right: ST. FRANCIS RECEIVES THE STIGMATA. Painting by Macrino d'Alba - Turin, Pinacoteca. Plate LXXXVIII Piedmont Above left: RELIQUARY OF ST. ANDREW. Art of Hugh of Oignies (13th cent.) - Chieri, Treasury of the Cathedral. Above right: BINDING OF AN EVANGELIARY in gold, «cloisonné» enamels, filigree and precious stones (11th cent.) - Vercelli, Cathedral. Below: RELIQUARY CASKET OF ST. ELDRADO, in embossed silver plates (11th-12th cent.) - Novalesa, parish church. Plate LXXXIX Piedmont PIAZZA PIO II WITH THE PICCOLOMINI AND AMMANNATI PALACES Plate XC Pienza, Diocese of Above: THE «FLAGELLATION» - Urbino, Palazzo ducale. Below: SIGISMONDO P. MALATESTA KNEELING BEFORE ST. SIGISMUND - Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano. Plate XCI Piero della Francesca Above left: DEAD JESUS SUPPORTED BY THE VIRGIN. Painting by Giovanni da Milano (14th cent.) - Florence, Galleria antica e moderna. Above right: DEAD JESUS IN THE LAP OF HIS MOTHER. Painting by Cosmè Tura (ca. 1485) - Venice, Museo civico. Below: JESUS SUPPORTED BY THE VIRGIN AND ST. JOHN. Below the instruments of the Passion. Painting by Bartolomeo Bonasia (1488) - Modena, Pinacoteca. Plate XCII Piety (Theology) Above left: PIETÀ. Terracotta (ca. 1430) from Unna - Münster in W., Landesmuseum. Above right: PIETÀ from Michelangelo's workshop, perhaps by Jacopo del Duca (ca. 1550) derived from a drawing by Buonarroti - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo cristiano. Below left: PIETÀ. Sculpture by Antonio Montauti (ca. 1730) - Rome, basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano, Cappella Corsini. Below right: PIETÀ by L. Andreotti (1926) in the chapel of S. Croce in Florence dedicated to the Italian Mother. Plate XCIII Piety (Theology) Above left: ST. PETER READING THE LEX CHRISTI. Fresco of the 4th cent. - Rome, Cimitero inter duas lauros. Above right: BUST OF ST. PETER. Fresco of the 5th cent. in the catacomb of S. Gennaro - Naples. Below: THE TRADITIO CLAVIUM. Fresco (668-85) from the cemetery of Commodilla - Rome. Plate XCIV Peter, Apostle, Saint Left: FOUNDATIONS OF THE CENTRAL NAVE (south side) of the Constantinian Basilica - Basilica of S. Pietro. Right: STRAIGHT ARM OF THE SEMI-ANNULAR CONFESSION. In the background: Constantinian marble revetment and altar of Callixtus II. Below: altar of the Confession (7th cent.). Plate XCV Peter, Apostle, Saint BRONZE STATUE. Plate XCVI Peter, Apostle, Saint Left: THE FISHERMAN'S NET made of laurel and myrtle, placed in the atrium of the Vatican Basilica on the feast day of 29 June. Plate XCVII Peter, Apostle, Saint Left: FACADE OF S. MARIA DELLA PACE. Transformation of the ancient 15th-cent. front - Rome. Plate XCVIII Peter of Cortona (Berrettini, P.) ARK OF ST. PETER MARTYR. At the centre scene of his canonization performed at Perugia by Innocent IV, 24 March 1253, work by Balduccio da Pisa (1399) - Milan, basilica of S. Eustorgio, Cappella Portinari. Plate XCIX Peter of Verona, Saint Above: GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY OF PINEROLO. Plate C Pinerolo, Diocese of Above: FRESCOES IN THE BORGIA APARTMENT. Opposite, the lunette with St. Catherine of Alexandria before the Emperor - Vatican. Below: FRESCOES IN THE PICCOLOMINI LIBRARY - Siena, Duomo. Plate CI Pinturicchio, Bernardino Betti (di Betto) detto Il Left: MONUMENT OF PIUS III. Work by Francesco di Giovanni and Sebastiano di F. Ferrucci (16th cent.) - Rome, church of S. Andrea della Valle. Plate CII Pio Iii-Iv Left: PORTRAIT OF PIUS VI, painting by Raffaello Mengs. Plate CIII Pio Vi-Vii Above: BELVEDERE COURTYARD. Gymnastic display by Catholic sports societies (Oct. 1903) - Vatican. Plate CIV Pius X, Pope, Blessed Above: ADDRESS TO THE ROMAN FAITHFUL ON EASTER DAY 1952. Below: AUDIENCE TO EXECUTIVES, STAFF AND WORKERS OF THE ENCICLOPEDIA CATTOLICA (3 Dec. 1950). Plate CV Pius XII, Pope Above left: THE CATHEDRAL SEEN FROM THE APSE AND THE BELL TOWER. Plate CVI Pisa, Archdiocese of CRUCIFIX of Pisan school (14th cent.). Plate CVII Pisa, Archdiocese of Above left: PORTRAIT OF FILIPPO MARIA VISCONTI - Paris, Louvre. Above right: PORTRAIT OF EMPEROR SIGISMUND - Vienna, Museum. Below: ST. GEORGE LIBERATES THE PRINCESS - Verona, church of St. Anastasia. Plate CVIII Pisanello, Antonio Pisano, called Il Plate CIX Plate CIX Pyxides Above: left: PYXI of the 13th cent. with Limoges enamels - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo sacro. Centre: PYXI of the 13th cent. - Anagni, Tesoro della Cattedrale. Right: PYXI of the 13th cent., with Limoges enamels - Biblioteca Vaticana, Museo sacro. Below: left: GILT-SILVER PYXI WITH RUBY CABOCHONS (18th cent.) - Mesurace, church of the Retreat. Centre: IVORY PYXI IN BAOULÉ STYLE. Work by Karamo Dijawara. Ivory Coast - Rome, Mostra d'arte missionaria del 1950. Right: BRASS PYXI. Indigenous art of French Africa - Rome, Mostra d'arte missionaria del 1950. Plate CX Pyxides Above: FACADE OF THE CATHEDRAL (Romanesque age: the portico is of 1311). Plate CXI Pistoia, Diocese of Above left: COPE OF BONIFACE VIII (13th cent.) - Anagni, Tesoro della Cattedrale. Above right: COPE of oriental brocade with hood or shield in 16th-cent. tapestry - Vatican, Museo sacro. Below left: COPE with 16th-cent. embroidery - Perugia, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. Below right: COPE in green silk with Indian ornamental motifs embroidered in gold - Rome, Mostra internazionale d'arte missionaria del 1950. Plate CXII Piviale Above: COPE known as "of Pius IX", preserved in the Biblioteca Vaticana (13th cent.). Plate CXIII Piviale Above left: CRACOW IN WINTER. Above right: CHURCH ON THE SKALKA where St. Stanislaus suffered martyrdom in 1079 (17th cent.) - Cracow. Below: THE WAWEL CASTLE in Cracow, founded by Krakus prince of Croatia in the '700. 19th-cent. lithograph. Plate CXIV Poland Above: NORTH FACADE OF THE SMALL PALACE of Lazienki. Architect Domenico Merlini (ca. 1788-90) - Warsaw. Below: MONUMENT TO A. MICKIEWICZ - Warsaw. Plate CXV Poland Above: INTERIOR OF THE ABBEY CHURCH (9th-12th cent.) with frescoes depicting events of the Old and New Testament and Scenes of the Apocalypse. Riminese school (14th cent.). Below: JOSEPH SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS. Detail of the frescoes of the Riminese school (14th cent.). Interior of the abbey church of Pomposa. Plate CXVI Pomposa Left: INCIPIT OF THE PONTIFICAL OF DURAND OF MENDE. Above St. Peter in papal vestments, below the coat of arms of Peter of St. Martial, bishop of Rieux (second half of the 14th cent.) - Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, f. 1. Right: PONTIFICAL OF CARD. GEORGES D'ARMAGNAC (after 1547). Card. Georges d'Armagnac in prayer in his oratory. In the borders, sacred furnishings and scenes relating to their vesting - Paris, Bibl. nat. ms. lat. nouv. acqu. 1506, f. 1. Plate CXVII Pontifical (phot. Atlanti) Plate CXVIII Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci (Carrucci), detto il Left: BUST IN WHITE CAPODIMONTE PORCELAIN (18th cent.) - Naples, Worth collection. Plate CXIX Porcelain CRUCIFIXION. Plate CXX Porcelain Above left: DOOR known as "OF JUDGMENT" (14th cent.) - Tudela (Navarre), Cathedral. Above right: DOOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS (14th cent.) - Ascoli Piceno. Below left: DOOR OF THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER MARTYR (17th cent.) - Ascoli Piceno. Below right: DOOR OF THE COURTYARD OF PALAZZO BARBERINI (17th cent.) - Rome. Plate CXXI Portal Above left: TERREIRO DO PAÇO - Lisbon. Above right: CASTLE of Braganza. Plate CXXII Portugal Above: SARCOPHAGUS WITH THE GOOD SHEPHERD (4th cent.) - Necropolis of the Isola Sacra - Porto. Centre: PLAN OF THE PORT OF TRAJAN - Porto. Below: BURIAL CHAMBER OF THE ISOLA SACRA - Porto. Plate CXXIII Porto e Santa Rufina, Diocese of THE CATHEDRAL. Plate CXXIV Potosí in Bolivia, Diocese of Above: ST. JEROME IN PRAYER - Madrid, Prado Gallery. Plate CXXV Poussin, Nicolas Left: BAS-RELIEF BY AGOSTINO DI DUCCIO ON THE FACADE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. BERNARDINO (1461) - Perugia. Right: MARRIAGE OF ST. FRANCIS WITH POVERTY. Above the blessing Hand of God. Panel painted by Ottaviano Nelli (ca. 1410). Vatican, Pinacoteca. Plate CXXVI Poverty Above: GLORY OF ST. IGNATIUS. Fresco in the apse of the church of St. Ignatius - Rome. Plate CXXVII Pozzo, Andrea Left: THE BRIDGE OF EMPEROR CHARLES IV (built in 1357-78, later adorned with statues representing the different religious Orders). Right: MONUMENT TO THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. Plate CXXVIII Prague, Archdiocese of Above: FACADE OF THE CATHEDRAL (built in the 14th cent., facade modified in the 15th cent.). The bell tower is from the 14th cent. Below: THE CASTLE (1245-47). Plate CXXIX Prato, Diocese of (Ind. Orlandia) Plate CXXX Prayer Above: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN ART (UPPER PALEOLITHIC): sample of cave wall figures (bovids, equids, etc.), painted in the cave of Lascaux (Ariège). The figures of the individual animals are large. Below: FRANCO-CANTABRIAN CAVE ART: male and female bison from the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert (Ariège), modelled in the round with the clay of the floor more than six hundred metres from the entrance of the cave itself. The female bison measures 61 cm in length, the male 63 cm. Plate CXXXI Prehistory (Religious Manifestations) Above left: INTERIOR OF THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CHURCH of Jerichow in Brandenburg (ca. 1150). Above right: INTERIOR OF THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN CHURCH of Schlägl (15th cent.), altar of 1728 - Austria. Below: PREMONSTRATENSIAN ABBEY OF TONGERLOO. Engraving of 1650. Plate CXXXII Premonstratensians Above: PRESENTATION OF THE VIRGIN IN THE TEMPLE. Detail of the frescoes by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel (1303-1305) - Padua. Below: PRESENTATION OF THE VIRGIN IN THE TEMPLE. Detail of the frescoes by D. Ghirlandaio in the Cappella Maggiore of S. Maria Novella (1485-90) - Florence. Plate CXXXIII Presentation of Mary, Saint, Feast of the Above: INSTITUTION OF THE NATIVITY SCENE OF GRECCIO. Giotto (1290-95) - Assisi, upper church of St. Francis. Below: THE NATIVITY SCENE OF THE HOLY FATHER in the external loggia of the papal apartment. Plate CXXXIV Nativity Scene Above left: THE NATIVITY. Work by Bartolomeo Suardi (16th cent.) - Lucerne, Museum. Above right: THE NATIVITY, watercolour by Teresa Koseki Kimiko - Rome, International Exhibition of Sacred Art of 1950. Below left: THE NATIVITY, panel of the Porta Maggiore of the basilica of S. Petronio, work by Jacopo della Quercia (1425) - Bologna. Below right: THE NATIVITY. Detail of the silver antependium by Nicola da Guardiagrele, begun in 1433 - Teramo, Cathedral. Below: THE NATIVITY, work by Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1423) - Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi. Plate CXXXV Nativity Scene Above: FRESCO IN THE VAULT OF THE CUBICULUM OF THE CORONATIO (late 2nd cent.) - Rome, cemetery of Pretestato. Below: DECORATION OF AN ARCOSOLIUM (late 3rd cent.) in the cubiculum of the Shepherd defending the flock - Rome, cemetery of Pretestato. Plate CXXXVI Cemetery of Praetextatus Above: STONE STATUES CALLED MOAI, remains of monuments of a funerary character. Easter Island. Below: YOUNG CATECHUMENS AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE MISSIONARY FATHER MULLER'S BOAT. Note the characteristic headdress, distinctive of their Faith - Oceania. Northern Solomon Islands. Plate, p. 44 Tav. 11 1. - Great Britain - 2. France - 3. United States - 4. Portugal. Plate, p. 56 Divisione Politica 1. Inhabited areas - 2. less than 1 inhab. per sq km. - 3. from 7 to 10 inhab. per sq km. - 4. from 10 to 25 inhab. per sq km. - 5. from 25 to 50 inhab. per sq km. - 6. over 50 inhab. per sq km. Plate, p. 57 Oceania Percentages of the total population: 1. less than Plate, p. 62 1 - 2. from 1 to 5 - 3. from 5 to 10 - 4. from 10 to 20 - 5. from 20 to 30 - 6. from 30 to 50 - 7. from 50 to 75 - 8. over 75. Plate, p. 63 Oceania 1. Alexandrian Rite - 2. Armenian Rite - 3. Byzantine Rite - 4. West Syrian Rite - 5. East Syrian Rite Plate, p. 213 Christian East 1. Syria (Roman Province). - 2. Tetrarchy of Philip. - Iudaea under Proc. Pontius Pilate. - 4. Tetrarchy of Herod Antipas. - 5. Decapolis. Plate, p. 385 Palestina Al Tempo Di Gesù Cristo Left: A PAGE OF THE PENTAGLOT BOMBICINO CODEX of the 14th cent., from Egypt: Epistles of St. Paul in (from right to left) Ethiopic, Syriac, Coptic-Bohairic, Arabic, Armenian - Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, B 20 inf. Right: EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS. Illuminated page of the Bible of Borso d'Este (1455-61) work by Taddeo Crivelli and collaborators - Modena, Biblioteca Estense. Plate, p. 433 Paul, Apostle, Saint CONVERSION OF SAUL Plate, p. 443 Paul, Apostle, Saint HOLY FAMILY Plate, p. 473 Paolo Veronese CODEX CONTAINING THE PRAYERS FOR THE PREPARATION AND THANKSGIVING OF THE MASS had copied and illuminated by Boniface IX (1389-1404). The miniature represents the pope wearing the cassock. Below the coat of arms of the Tomacelli. Biblioteca Vaticana, cod. Vat. lat. 3747, fol. 17°. Plate, p. 477 Pope Plate, p. 488 Plate, p. 488 Pope Plate, p. 489 | Pio Iv 1559 1565 | S. Pio V 1566 1572 | Gregorio Xiii 1572 1585 | Sisto V 1585 1590 | PERSIA - The Tower of Silence, where the Persians deposit their dead. Tehran (surroundings). Plate, p. 736 Persia Plate, p. 737 Persia (progr. Enc. Coll.) Plate, p. 819 Piedmont PL. A Plate A Peter, Apostle, Saint PETER THE APOSTLE Plate B Peter, Apostle, Saint RECONSTRUCTION OF THE « MEMORIA APOSTOLICA » Plate C Peter, Apostle, Saint MARTYRDOM OF ST. PETER Plate D Peter, Apostle, Saint

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