The Art of the Vatican: Being a Brief History of the Palace and an Account of the Principal Art Treasures Within Its Walls - Hardcover

Potter, Mary Knight

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1432614576 ISBN 13: 9781432614577

Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co, 2004

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The Art of the Vatican: Being a Brief History of the Palace and an Account of the Principal Art Treasures Within Its Walls

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If the descriptions were much shortened, the volume becomes little more than a bare catalogue. And there are already plenty of catalogues of the Vatican collections. The other method would be to cut out the chapter devoted to the palace as a whole, and give its place to the collections above mentioned. This has seemed an undesirable alternative. It was felt that the preliminary account of the building, and the brief mention of the part it has played in the history of the centuries, gave the work a homogeneity, a unity, not otherwise attainable. The same reasoning applies to the actual paintings and sculptures described in each gallery or chapel. It has been thought better to devote as much consideration as possible to the most noted of the works rather than to speak more briefly of many. In this way it is hoped that the book may be valuable both for travellers, who wish to have something more than mere guide-book information of the great treasures of Rome, and for the amateur who has not sufficient time or desire to consult the many original works necessary for a thorough art training. It is probably not necessary to remind the reader that a book of this kind can be little more than a compilation of a few of the opinions of the critics, archaeologists, and historians who are recognised authorities, each in his own field.
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• Verlag: Kessinger Pub Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1432614576
• ISBN 13: 9781432614577
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364