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...corner of Rome which has been left behind by the centuries is the church of St. John Lateran. Dozens of churches can lay claim to greater beauty and adornment, but this church, said the Pope in a letter last week, is "the mother and head of all the churches of the city and of the world...
...church-St. Jean Baptiste, Manhattan - claims to be the only church in the world directly affiliated with the Laterano church. Visitors to the Manhattan church may receive all the privileges of a visit to the mother church. Thus on Nov. 9 it will dispense, like the Lateran, a plenary indulgence...
...painters of the Marches, Venice and North Italy. In 1423 he painted his most famous work, the "Epiphany," now in the Florence Academy. Colosanti thinks that the picture now in the Fogg Museum was painted at about the same time. Finally, in 1428, while still at work in the Lateran in Rome, he died. This incompleted work caused Roger van der Weyden to call him the foremost of Italian painters. It is interesting that Michaelangelo, who had no regard for artists generally, said that Gentile was as charming as his name...
Several new acquisitions were received and installed yesterday morning before the opening. A cast of the altar of Ostia and others of Roman fragments from the Vatican and Lateran museums at Rome were erected in the Hall of Casts...
...history of the Vatican Library, which now contains perhaps the rarest collection of books and manuscripts in Europe, reaches back to the time of Nicholas V., who, in 1447, transferred the manuscripts in the Lateran, the church of highest dignity in the Roman Communion, to his own palace. In all he collected about 9,000 manuscripts, part of which were destroyed by his successor. Pope Sixtus V., however, showed great zeal in builking up the papal library. In 1588, he erected the beginning of the present structure. The celebrity of the Library dates from the sixteenth century, when important additions...