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Article: LEARNING ABOUT FAITH AND LIFE IN THE CATACOMBS OF ROME
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 1987
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Estelle Shohet Brettman, executive director of the Boston-based
International Catacomb Society, has spent the past decade bringing
the underground art of Rome to light.
"Vaults of Memory: Jewish and Christian Imagery in the
Catacombs of Rome," which opens a month-long stay at the Boston
Public Library Sept. 15 (preceded by a fund-raising banquet on the
14th, at which the guest of honor will be Dr. Walter Persegati,
secretary general of the Vatican Museums) is an extraordinary
documentation of the subterranean treasures of the ancient world.
Photographing for weeks at a time in the tortuous passageways of
Christian and Jewish catacombs, Brettman endured taxing conditions.
The humidity ...
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