Eschatological Symbolism in the Vatican Necropolis"While recognizing its limitations, the present study ventures to present an analysis and a brief synthesis of some of the lines along which the complex problem of man's eschatological reality has been developed and a solution attempted. Our contact with certain elements of pre-Christian figural and architectural funerary art will lead us to analyze elements of the burial customs of certain civilizations - the Egyptian and the Jewish, as well as the Etruscan - which influenced the Roman world and left traces in the Vatican Necropolis."--Introduction |
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afterlife albo Valerjuszów ancient B. M. APOLLONJ GHETTI BB¹ burial Caetenni Caetennii mausoleum Cerveteri Christ cinerary casket conception Confessione di San cult culture CUMONT D(IS dead person death decorative Dionysus divinities earthly Egitto Egyptian elements eschatological Esplorazioni eternal Etruscan Etruschi expression Falerii Fannia Redempta figurative and architectural Firenze fresco funéraire G. B. DE ROSSI Greek GUARDUCCI HH¹ ideas immortality inscription ivy leaves J. M. VESELY Jewish Lazio living M(ANIBVS Maenads mausoleum HH Milano mythology Nécropole Vaticane Mausolée Necropoli Vaticana Necropoli Vaticana Mausoleo Necrópolis Vaticana Mausoleo Nekropol Watykanu Nekropolia Watykańska Mauzoleum Norchia Norchia Vetralla opus reticulatum Osiris pagan painting Pietro in Vaticano plate pre-Christian religion religious represented resurrection rites Roma Roman San Pietro sarcofago sarcophagus scenes serpent soul stucco Tarquinia titulus tomb Tullius Zethus typical Valeri Valerii mausoleum HH Vatican Necropolis Mausoleum Vaticana Mausoleo HH Vatikanische Nekropole Mausoleum Vetralla voll wall Yahweh Zethus