Time Lords
Anthony Grafton: In the Catacombs, 31 July 2014
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
by Paul Koudounaris.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £18.95, September 2013,978 0 500 25195 9 Show More
by Paul Koudounaris.
Thames and Hudson, 189 pp., £18.95, September 2013,
“... Though they paid for their audacity when they were arrested and tortured by the suspicious Pope Paul II, they were back at it by the 1470s. Underground Rome continued to tempt explorers, especially the buried Golden House of Nero, where artists discovered ancient Roman decorative motifs, which they christened ‘grotesques’ and used to decorate Vatican ... ”
