Riccardo Valente

The mural painting of Three living and three dead (14th century) in the Sacro Speco (Subiaco) bears graffiti. Among the oldest (15th and 16th cent.), some are comments on the subject of the fresco and are similar to texts inscribed on paintings portraying the same scene in different places in Italy; other graffiti are signatures of visitors and pilgrims, often from northern and eastern Europe...