Gallery
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The basilica's claim to being the head church in the world.
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Apse depicting mosaics from the Triclinium of Pope Leo III in the ancient Lateran Palace.
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Alessandro Galilei's façade.
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The cloister of the monastery, with a cosmatesque decoration.
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“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
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