The Mouth of Truth - Rome, Italy
The Mouth of Truth ('Bocca della Verita') - located in the portico of the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, Italy. Became a famed lie detector in the Middle Ages, the belief being that is one told a lie with one's hand in the mouth of the carving, it would bite the hand off
Picture No
11007091
Media ID
46677382
Size
3275px x 5215px
(1.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed postcard
Date
circa 1920s
