Vatican museums : 100 works not to be missed /
Here is an extraordinary illustrated art book that showcases the one hundred masterpieces that present the legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman pontiffs have collected and guarded for centuries. The Vatican Museums are a complex of diverse collections that are all exceptionally impo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cittá del Vaticano : Mahwah, New Jersey :
Edizioni Musei Vaticani ; Paulist Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | [English edition]. |
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| Summary: | Here is an extraordinary illustrated art book that showcases the one hundred masterpieces that present the legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman pontiffs have collected and guarded for centuries. The Vatican Museums are a complex of diverse collections that are all exceptionally important, including Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman, paleo-Christian, and epigraphic, all the way up to paintings from various centuries and the great Renaissance of Raphael's "Rooms" and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. The artworks have been selected by specialists: archaeologists, art historians, architects, historians, and anthropologists who have each chosen the works they consider universal and definitive in their field. With its fine, elegant quality, this is a volume that is meant to last and to be savored over the years.--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | In a slip-box. |
| Physical Description: | 482 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 35 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780809106615 0809106612 |