ArturoViaggia · @arturoviaggia
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brings us back to the basilica of S. Eustorgio in where we find the biggest of them all, that of the Three Mages, built rather than carved, broken, damaged, empty, but as awe-inspiring as all places where people have prayed for centuries.

#sarcophagussaturday #milan #sarcophagus

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mym · @LiberalDespot
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For here is a banquet scene on the end of a 3rdC CE sarcophagus in the Lapidario Estense in . They may be eating the wild boars shown being hunted on the other end...

#modena #sarcophagussaturday

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ArturoViaggia · @arturoviaggia
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Today's takes us into an imperial mausoleum in , built by Galla Placidia, of the and later empress of , to see a gigantic said to be of , which it isn't.

#sarcophagussaturday #milan #queen #visigoths #rome #sarcophagus #gallaplacidia

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ArturoViaggia · @arturoviaggia
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takes us into the ancient basilica of S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura to admire a which co-opts non-Christian motifs like decoration and Erotes in the cultural plurality of late antique . @arturoviaggia

#sarcophagussaturday #christian #sarcophagus #strigillate #rome

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