| Vatican Masterpieces |  | Author: Enrico Bruschini
Publisher: Scala Publishers
Category: Book
Buy New: $137.66
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Seller: Veritas Bookstore
Sales Rank: 155,669
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1. Ed
Pages: 148
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1857592700
EAN: 9781857592702
ASIN: 1857592700
Publication Date: December 30, 2006
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Product Description
The Vatican Museums contain some of the greatest Western art in the world. Thousands of works of art have been collected by successive popes since the early fifteenth century, and all are housed in a complex of buildings in the papal palace and elsewhere in the Vatican. With several museums, the Library exhibition rooms, and various suites of Renaissance painting of which the most important are Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and the Stanze, decorated by Raphael and others the visitor is admitted to some of the most beautiful rooms in existence. Perhaps most famous for classical sculpture, such as the Apollo Belvedere and the Belvedere Torso , the Vatican Museums also have rich collections of, for example, early Christian art, jewellery and vestments. This selection of 100 masterpieces from one of the richest collections in the world, gives the visitor and reader a privileged insight into the core of the Vatican's incomparable collections. Each resplendent photograph is accompanied by an explan
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