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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ngallo in the Cod. Barbarin., XLIX., 33, fol. 34v and35 (cp. BORGATTI, p. 94), and by Sansovino in the collection of sketches at the Uffizi inFlorence, No. 4330. Our 111. 63 is from a drawing by F. Mazzanti, based on his studyof the interior of the monument. Cp. Hulsen, Mitth. des Archdol. Instit., 1891, 138(Schneider, Das alte Rom, PI. 12, No. 20). The lantern of the dome is still preservedwithin the present structure. The mouldings of the roof were discovered by thedraughtsman in the neighbourhood. The existence of an encircling wall and railingshas been established by recent study. On the other hand, the bronze peacocks on therailings and the details of the ornamentation of the building generally are less certain.A section of the mausoleum will be given in a later volume. 2 Corpus inscr. lat., VI., No. 984 fT. De ROSSI, Inscr. christ., 2, 1, p. 29, n. 61 ff.: in Adrianio. Cp. Hirschfeld, Die kaiserlichen Grabstdtten in Rotn (Sitzungsberichteder Berliner A kademie, 1886, p. n 49 ff.
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no. i76) HADRIANS MAUSOLEUM 265 drawings, as well as through the results of recent excavations, weare now able to realise their beauty. The mouldings, both onthe upper and the lower building, represented tasteful garlands,broken by the customary bulls heads, symbolising the sacrifices.Between the pilasters above these, stood rows of choice statues.The portal was surmounted by a marble figure of Hadrian, foundhere later, and now preserved in the Vatican Museum.1 Even the mediaeval Mirabilia of Rome wax eloquent overthe details of this splendid edifice, calling it, however, TemplumHadriani instead of Mausoleum of Hadrian. Their statementthat the whole monument was enclosed by bronze railings hasbeen confirmed by recent discoveries. This railing, they say, wasadorned with bronze peacocks, u of which two were taken to thecantharus in the precincts of St. Peters. These peacocks, thusdescribed as having once migrated to the fountain in the ancientAtrium of the Vatican Basilica, are probably

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