Paintings in the Vatican / [edited by] Carlo Pietrangeli ; essays by Guido Cornini, Anna Maria de Strobel, Maria Serlupi Crescenzi ; [text translated by Frank Dabell].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pietrangeli, Carlo.

Cornini, Guido

De Strobel, Anna Maria

Serlupi Crescenzi, Maria

Dabell, Frank

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Dipinti del Vaticano. English.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Painting, Italian--Vatican City--Catalogs.

Painting, Italian.

Vatican City.

Painting--Vatican City--Catalogs.

Painting.

Art museums--Vatican City--Catalogs.

Art museums.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

605 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Edition:

First English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., [1996]

Summary:

The Vatican Museums comprise three bodies that were once distinct but are now linked so that the visitor may tour them without interruption: the Vatican Museum proper, of which the Picture Gallery in an annex; the exhibition rooms of the Vatican Library; and the sections of the Vatican Palace that are open to the public, including the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael Stanze, and the Borgia Apartments. This volume presents these bodies in a unified way, so that the complementary descriptions and color illustrations of the works selected are arranged in chronological order. Particular attention has been given to the painters who worked under Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, and Clement VIII, that is, during the most splendid years of the High Renaissance in Italy. The resultant artistic overview is comprehensive, spanning the entire history of painting from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. Presented here are a great number of world-famous masterpieces, including Giotto's Stefaneschi Altarpiece, Giovanni Bellini's Lamentation over the Dead Christ, Raphael's Transfiguration, Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome, Caravaggio's Deposition, Nicolas Poussin's Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus, and a highly important group of paintings by Titian, Guercino, and Guido Reni. To these are added many works that have long been in storage in the "secret" rooms of the Pontifical Apartments, for a unique representation of one of the greatest and most precious painting collections in the world.

Notes:

"A Bulfinch Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 589-594) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

082122316X

OCLC:

36049726