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Papi in posa : 500 years of papal portraiture by Petrucci, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…Bust of Gregory XV (Alessandro Ludovisi, 1621-1623) / Giovan Lorenzo Bernini ; cast by Gregorio de' Rossi (bronze, 75 x 69 cm., base 175. x 23 x 20 cm., Medieval Civic Museum, Bologna) -- Portrait of Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini, 1623-1644) / Giovan Lorenzo Bernini (bronze, 81 cm. high, without pedestal, Municipal Palace, Camerino) -- Portrait of Innocent X (Giovanni Battista Pamphilj, 1644-1655) / Pietro da Cortona (oil on canvas, 96.5 x 68 cm., Palazzo Chigi, Fagiolo collection, Ariccia).…”

Man and the sacred; a thematic source book of the history of religions. by Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986

Table of Contents: “…Nuer sacrifice -- The Ainu bear sacrifice -- Horse sacrifice and the Shaman's ascent to the sky (Altaic) -- A Mazdean (Zorastrian) sacrifice to the sun ( Khoorshoed Yasht, 1-5) -- A Homeric sacrifice for the dead (Homer, Odyssey, XI, 18-5O) -- A Sacrifice to Rhea, the Phrygian mother-goddess (Apollonius Rhodius : Argonautica, I, 1078-1150) -- Expiation of an Umbrian town : an archaic Roman sacrifice (Bronze tablets from Gubbio) -- An Offering for Jupiter before the sowing (Cato : On agriculture, 132) -- A Roman harvest sacrifice (Cato : On agriculture, 134) -- Devotio : the sacrificial death of Decius (Livy : History of Rome, VIII,9, 1-11; 10, 3) -- The Cosmic sacrifice (Rig Veda, X, 90) --…”