Save for Pinturicchio's brilliant frescoes in the Sacristy there are no pictures to speak of; but the pavement is covered with many elaborate designs in black and white mosaic after cartoons by Beccafumi.
How is it possible to forget one's visits to the sacristy of the Frari, however frequent they may have been, and the great work of John Bellini which forms the treasure of that apartment?
Above the Sacristy are the Archives of St. Peter's, containing, among many other ancient MSS.
A chapel and sacristy added on either side produced the form of the cross.
The altar of the sacristy has a Crucifixion, by Andrea Sacchi.
Over the sacristy door is the tomb of Pope Clement XIV.
Over a door leading to the Sacristy are frescoes representing the election of Eugenius IV.
Beyond the Sacristy is the pretty little Cimeterio dei Tedeschi, the oldest of Christian burial-grounds, said to have been set apart by Constantine, and filled with earth from Calvary.
In the passage towards the sacristy is a fine bas-relief, representing Gregory XIII.
From the sacristy a staircase leads to the Lower Church (occasionally illuminated for the public) first discovered in 1857.
In a chapel which opens out of a passage leading to the sacristy is the fine tomb of Cardinal Guido di Balneo, of the time of Leo X.
It was used to adorn the circus of Nero, and was brought from a position near the present sacristy of St. Peter's by Sixtus V.
In the sacristy is a very curious mosaic, one of the few relics preserved from the old St Peter's, A.
In the sacristy is preserved a fine picture by Giulio Romano of the Flagellation--especially appropriate in the church of the Colonna.
That comprehending the Creator between angels was removed to a staircase in the Quirinal palace, while single figures of angels were placed in the sacristy of St. Peter's.
It was the eve of Corpus Domini, and in the sacristy they were preparing the robes for the processional.
Hasn't she been put into the sacristy just before Father Ambrose's visit; now she will be able to put out his vestments herself.
And the little nun was happy in the corner of the sacristy laying out the vestments, putting the gold chalice for him to use, and the gold cruets, which Evelyn had never seen used before.
Nuns employed in the sacristy might talk, and in a few days Veronica's nature revealed itself in many little questions.
Evelyn wondered, and that evening in the sacristy Veronica broke into expostulations with an excitement that took Evelyn by surprise.
In the sacristy is a standard painted with an Assumption by Riccio.
The Noveschi occupied the gospel side of the altar and choir, the Popolani the epistle side, and the Cardinal in full pontifical vestments came out of the sacristy and took his seat between the two parties in front of the high altar.
In the sacristy is the Madonna del Manto, Our Lady taking the people of Siena under her protection, by Giovanni di Pietro, 1436, an otherwise almost unknown master.
Over the sacristy door is the Madonna del Popolo, a lovely little picture by Lippo Memmi.
In the sacristy there is an admirable bust, by Benedetto da Maiano, of Onofrio di Pietro, the Operaio of the Collegiata under whose superintendence the building was restored and the shrine of Santa Fina constructed; he died in 1488.
The sacristycontains a banner painted with the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin by Bazzi.
The sacristy contains a statue of St Sigismund, ascribed to Giacomo Cozzarelli.
In the sacristy there is what purports to be a portrait of Brandano.
It was built by Girolamo di Domenico Ponsi, at the end of the fifteenth century, and its sacristy contains Madonnas by Matteo di Giovanni and Benvenuto.
Meanwhile Lucy was hurried forward with the privileged crowd going to the tribunes, towards the sacristydoor on the south.
Many years ago I found the separate sheets of it lying about in the sacristy in a manner which gave one a vivid idea of the reckless carelessness which is so marked a characteristic of Italians.
At the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, of the choir of which we have been speaking, this fitting up of the sacristy had been done previously; and it is accordingly much less rich in carving than the work in the choir.
Opposite the Sacristy is the entrance to the Martyrium or Chapel of S.
And having prepared my lesson, I talked about the Romanesque of the XII and XIII Centuries like a professor, and then he took me into the sacristy and showed me two paintings on wood which I told him were XV Century.
He said various times that he had many cloaks for the Virgin in the sacristy of his church, and that he wished they could be given to poor parishes, because two or three were enough in his.
Returning then to my usual studies, I received facilities by means of that lord to enter at my pleasure into the new sacristy of S.
And this will be seen clearly in a thirdsacristy that he wishes to build beside S.
The last will and testament of St. Yves is preserved in the sacristy of the Church de Minihy, and also his breviary.
In the sacristy of the church are preserved the teeth of St. Tuglan.
No trace, however, of the great church now remains at Kells, from the sacristy of which we are told the Great Gospel of Columcille was stolen at night in the year A.
It is evident, upon close examination, that the chancel and sacristy annexed to it, as well as the belfry, were later additions.
With reverent hands and streaming eyes they took a part of the sacred relics to carry home with them to their native Ireland; the rest, for greater security, they re-interred in the sacristy for those who were to come after them.
The holy remains, by which many miracles were wrought, were buried in a marble tomb, which up to this day is preserved in the sacristy of the Cathedral of Tarentum.
In the sacristyalso there are two pictures, of the German school of the sixteenth century.
The sacristyis a finely decorated and beautifully proportioned room.
The sacristy is an extensive suite of rooms which contain throughout a deep-toned and mellow oaken wainscot.
This master-piece of Pedro de Campana is seen at the head of the sacristy of the cathedral.
In the smaller sacristy are two pictures in Bassano's style, and some copies from Raphael, Rubens, and others.
The vaulting ribs in the part of the transept between this chapel and the sacristy are carved like those in the last bay of the presbytery next to the lady-chapel, and are of the same date.
In the refectory he has done the history of St Louis, a Last Supper, and a Tree of the Cross, while the presses of the sacristy are decorated with some scenes from the lives of Christ and of St Francis in small figures.
I will say no more about them, except that a part of them may be seen in the great round tower, and a part in the old sacristy of St Peter's.
In the chapel of St Sebastian, next the sacristy in S.
In the same church, and in conjunction with his brother Bernardo, Andrea did in fresco the chapel of the Strozzi, which is near the door of the sacristy and the belfry.
Miniato outside Florence between the door of the sacristy and that of the convent, and in S.
Francesco beside the sacristy door, which may still be discerned to-day, and are recognisable as being by Taddeo, because he always retained the same manner.
An uninjured work of Tommaso in the same church is in the tympanum over the sacristy door, which contains a Madonna in fresco, with the child in her arms; it is a good thing as he took pains with it.
Croce there are four chapels decorated by his hand, three between the sacristy and the principal chapel, and one on the other side.
In the transept on the sacristy side of the lower church of S.
For the chapel of the sacristy of St Francesco at Pisa, Taddeo also painted a picture in tempera of the Madonna and some saints, signing his name to it and the year 1394.
Thanks to the devotion of her servants, a wooden altar brought from the sacristy had been erected close to the door of the salon, and so prepared and decorated that Monseigneur could say mass upon it.
The passage which led to the sacristy exhibited on one of its walls the patron saint of the village, a large Saint John the Baptist with his sheep, carved in wood and horribly painted.
Of the former, the chapels of Savoy and St. Eloy are the chief: but the large sacristy is more extensive than either.
A be-ribboned nurse carrying a baby had just come in to see the Sacro Bambino, and Olive followed them into the sacristy and saw the child laid down before the bedizened, red-cheeked wooden doll in the glass case.
As Olive left the sacristy a tall man came across the aisle towards her.
With her right hand she gathered up the pile of stained altar-linen from the ground, and going once more into the sacristy she thrust it into the oak chest in which were kept the Lenten furnishings of the altar.
As she came into the sacristy he looked round with a smile.
There remains an altar-piece of Pierilario in the Sacristy of Santa Lucia, executed in a method very superior to that of the "Baptism of Christ," painted for the baptismal font by his brother Filippo.
Among these anonymous productions in the ancient style, the most remarkable is what remains in the Sacristy of Le Grazie, where every panel presents us with some act from the Old or the New Testament.
But even suppose that the treasure is really deposited in the church you mention, it is not probable that you will be permitted to remove the floor of the sacristy to search for it.
It is buried 'neath the sacristy in the church of San Roque.
Generosa had always seemed an impudent jade to her, coming and talking with Don Gesualdo, as she did, at all hours, and as though the church and the sacristy were open bazaars!
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