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'Sistine Chapel of the Middle Ages' reopens to public in Rome
www.reuters.com
Mar 23, — ... been chosen to be the mother of Christ was painted on top of a pre-Christian Byzantine queen wearing a crown and a pearl-covered gown. › article › us-italy-art-church
Biblical Scholar Discounts Legend : 'No Room at Inn' Story of ...
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Dec 26, — ... but pilgrims did not begin to arrive in larger numbers until after the Byzantine Queen Helena had the basilica built in 339 AD. › archives › la-xpm
Spotlight on “Allegories of the Odyssey” — Dumbarton Oaks
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Mar 25, — ... for the second of Homer's epics and on behalf of the same patron—or of another Byzantine queen reluctant to see his work go unfinished. › newsletter › news-archives › s...
'Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages' buried for a millenium by...
www.telegraph.co.uk
A 1,500-year-old church which was buried under debris from an earthquake for more than a millennium has reopened to the public after a painstaking restoration...
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