I was astounded to find a Perusine church cite one of my favorites in Rome.
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American Funerary Portraits in Glass and Stone
Among the Romans, it was very common, in some periods more than others, to have a portrait of yourself as a part of, or on the premises of, your tomb. It was an assertion of selfhood and existence and social significance before death; or it allowed a commemorator to assert these things for the dead. …
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