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Sante Bartoli, _mem. _ 56-57, says that while Pope Alexander VII. was building the left wing of Bernini's portico, and the fountain of the southern semicircle, a tomb was discovered with a bas-relief above the door representing a marriage-scene ( "vi era un bellissimo bassorilievo di un matrimonio antico").
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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