vatican museums (56 Ergebnisse)

A Pictoral Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. Former owners' name in marker on inside cover. Corner crease, some spine and cover wear. Ex-private Collection.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.6.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Writing inside.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light to moderate wear around the extremities. A nice copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. 96 page, beautifully illustrated work on the Sistine Chapel - "the epitome of the great art of the Italian Renaissance". Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.17.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Soft cover. Zustand: V.g. ND, 13pp, 86 plates, colour & b/w including folding plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1983, Official Publication Authorized by the Vatican Museums, pp. 255, 28.5 x 22 x 2 cm), maroon cloth with blind Vatican decoration and pictorial dust jacket, includes compliment slip from the Met. Fine in Very Good, book is scrips with sharp corners, jacket has light wear at spine top and bottom. Many of the Vatican's supreme art treasures are represented in the unprecedented exhibition that is the occasion for this book. These works are drawn not only from the Vatican Museums, but from Saint Peter's and its Treasury, the Apostolic Palaces, and the Vatican Library. Thus, this volume brilliantly illustrates the entire history of papal patronage and collectingthe single longest and most influential collecting tradition in the Western world. The objects range from ancient Greek vases and sculptures to modern works by Henri Matisse and André Derain.

Linen. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). Reprint. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1983. Reprint. 4to. Linen binding, 256 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Book to accompany traveling exhibit. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Fine in very good dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. Large format volume with full-size detailed images of the cleaned Transfiguration. Book and contents are pristine. Only bottom of spine on the outside has some damage to the cloth. Jacket is translucent vellum which is fragile and brittle and has some chunks removed. 0.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. (VAT) Printing of 2003. No markings near Fine. Wraps, 216pp, colour reproductions throughout show the works of Michelangelo and Raphael in glorious detail. There are foldouts--one of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the other of the painted panels to the walls of the Sistine Chapel. The text is in English. This is a well-illustrated best-selling guidebook that shows you the paintings in the whole and in detail, sommething which is difficult in situ becasue of the throng of people there. Michelangelo's ceiling and the last judgement are respresented are as the frescoes by Perugino, Botticelli, Signorelli, Ghirlandaio and Rosselli. Michaelangelo's less-well known The Conversion of St Paul and The Crucifixion of St Peter fro the Pauline Chapel are shown as well. The frescoes of the Raphael Stanzas are shown in detail as well as the paintings by Raphael in the Loggias. (3.0 JM HOZ 403/b6 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

LeatherBound. Zustand: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1982 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 262.

Zustand: Assez bon. HARRY N. ABRAMS (illustrator).

hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Like New. Bound in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on the spines and covers. Many beautiful color lates. Volume 1, The Restoration, viii 359pp. Volume 2, The Plates, unpaginated. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of color plates and figures. An in-depth look at the restoration of "The Last Judgement," Michelangelo's painting on the altar wall at the Sistine Chapel; Provides great detail on the techniques used and includes a microbiological analysis of the painting itself. Pictorial slipcase.CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Bindings and text blocks are tight. Slipcase has some light rubbing and shelf wear. Due to the size and weight of this item, an additional shipping charge will likely apply, and will be requested after purchase. Full refund if not satisfied.

Full Color Illustrations (illustrator). ~ SCARCE TITLE ~. Paperback : soft cover edition in good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.

First edition. Two volumes. 4to. viii, 358, (2) pp. Publisher's plum cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and upper boards, matching slipcase with colour illustrations to the sides. Numerous illustrations and diagrams to the first volume, full page colour plates throughout the second. An excellent set.

Volume I 358 S., Volume 2 ohne Seitenangaben, durchgängig farb. Bebildert, 4°, Oln., Goldprägung a. Rücken und Deckel, im O-Schuber, am Schuber ist die Cellophanschicht etwas gelöst, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnt.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Brand New in Publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copies in slipcase. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 1st Am. ed. edition. 4to, ca. 700 pp.

Folio. Italian, German, and French manuscript on paper. Title-page, (129) pp. on 69 ff. With 286 mounted pen-and-ink drawings on transparent paper and 3 lithographs. Contemporary speckled black cardboard. Beautifully illustrated catalogue of important antiquities from the collections of the Museo Pio-Clementino and the Galleria Chiaramonti, the first two museums of classical antiquities within the Vatican museums. The title-page includes three mounted drawings: portrait busts of Popes Clement XIII and Pius VII and a personification of Rome from the collection. - The Museo Pio-Clementino had been founded by Clement XIV in 1771 as a public museum of antiquities; the Galleria Chiaramonti followed in 1806 and was specifically dedicated to smaller antique works in marble. A reference to J. J. Winckelmann's seminal "Geschichte der Kunst des Althertums" on the title-page may explain why Varneck chose to include the portrait of Clement XIII, as it was he who appointed Winckelmann as his Prefect of Antiquities in 1763 and Wickelmann's ideas were central to the organization of the Papal collections of antiquities by his successor Giovanni Battista Visconti. - The catalogue itself consists of 286 numbered entries, all but three illustrated with Varneck's detailed pen drawings mounted on the recto of each leaf. Many of the drawings are labelled in French with references to the catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino that was established by G. B. Visconti and his son and successor Ennio Quirino Visconti between 1782 and 1808. The catalogue entries proper are written in Italian and provide the title, measurements, often information as to provenance, and references to the Visconti catalogues and, in some cases, the writings of Winckelmann. The numbering does not follow the Visconti catalogues but rather is based on subjects and types of sculpture with two principal sections for mythological and profane statuary, subdivided by subjects such as specific deities, heroes, emperors, and types (free-standing statues, busts, and reliefs). Among the most famous pieces in the catalogue are the Apollo Belvedere (no. 49), Ganymede and the Eagle (no. 77), the Belvedere Torso (no. 105), the Laocoon (no. 136), and the Old Fisherman (no. 193). - The otherwise unknown Carlo (Karl) Varneck or Warneck was certainly a German artist or architect studying or living in Rome. - Binding fragile and rubbed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. FIRST EDITION. Printed on blue paper. In contemporary mottled calf, the spine and boards tooled in gold. A very fine copy of the very rare first catalogue of the Museo Pio-Clementino - founded by Pope Clement XIV in 1771 and greatly expanded his successor by Pius VI-, written for the use of visitors by the keeper of the museum, Pasquale Massi of Cesena. Rare. The Museo Pio-Clementino was the first major curatorial museum within what are known today collectively as the Vatican Museums. In 1771, Pope Clement XIV had Michelangelo Simonetti adapt the Belvedere Pavilion to accommodate the papal collection of ancient art. When Clement's successor, the avid art collector Pius VI, was elevated to the pontificate in 1775, the pace of acquisition increased dramatically and very soon the collections outgrew the rooms arranged for them by Simonetti. In 1776, Pius VI called for a radical restructuring of the existing museum and the construction of new, grand spaces to house the ever-expanding collection. Massi's catalogue, a room-by-room guide of the museum with descriptions of all of the artifacts and artworks housed therein, is an invaluable record of how the greatly expanded museum of antiquities looked in the late 18th century, with its newly constructed series of rooms and the recently installed masterpieces of ancient sculpture -the fruits of some of the most important excavations in Italy, including the excavation of Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. In addition to providing a record of the arrangement of the exhibits, Massi's catalogue, in which he provides details of provenance, acquisition, and attribution of each artwork described, serves as a history of the museum's formation, and preserves valuable information about the art trade and the function of archaeology in the late 18th century. Massi has used a system of numbers and letters to indicate which works were added to the museums by Julius II and his various successors, above all Clement XIV and the then-current pope, Pius VI. In his introduction, Massi tells us that he has designed his guide for portability and easy reference by tourists, by arranging the descriptions of the objects in each room in the form of a walking itinerary. Since it is necessary at two points to retrace one's steps, Massi's guide leads us along one side of each room as we proceed through the galleries. When it is time to reverse our course, he leads us along the opposite side of the rooms already traversed, thus keeping us engaged and entertained as we retrace our steps through the vast complex. Our tour begins at the new entrance to the museum, in the corridor of Cleopatra, also known as the corridor of the inscriptions, just within the new entrance to the museum. We then pass through two vestibules. The first one is square, with frescoes by Giovanni da Udine in the vault. In it we encounter the tomb of the Scipios and the Belvedere Torso. The second vestibule is round and in its center is a large bowl made of pavonazzetto. From here we proceed through a corridor into the porticoed, octagonal courtyard of the Belvedere, the site of Julius II's first installation of ancient sculpture, transformed by Simonetti in the 1770's. Massi then leads us through the hall of the animals, the gallery of statues, the gallery of busts, and the "loggia scoperta" (the room of masks). We make our way back through these galleries to arrive at the series of rooms created by Simonetti in the 1780's. The first of these is the hall of the muses. We then enter the breathtaking Sala Rotonda (with its immense, newly installed, ancient porphyry basin from the Domus Aurea), through which we make our way to the Sala of the Greek Cross, where we find the newly installed ancient porphyry sarcophagus of Constantine's daughter, Constantia. From here Massi takes us, via Simonetti's new staircase, up past the unfinished hall of the biga, to Bramante's vast gallery of the candelabra, which is itself divided into numerous rooms with vases, statuary, and jewe.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Limited Edition. This extraordinary three-volume set on the Sistine Chapel is the result of a five-year collaboration between Callaway, the Vatican Museums, and the Italian art publisher Scripta Maneant of Bologna, Italy. The publication of The Sistine Chapel trilogy is a pioneering technological breakthrough. To create the ultimate book of these masterpieces, a team of photographers made more than 270,000 digital images over the course of 67 consecutive nights, while the Sistine Chapel was closed to the public. Using a 33-foot-tall scaffold and rig to capture every inch of the chapel in gigapixel digital photography, the team utilized imaging software to stitch together seamlessly all 270,000 individual frames. The result is the first opportunity in history for viewers to appreciate the frescoes as Michelangelo and the other artists painted them, with images so clear, sharp, and immersive that the viewers feel as if they are side by side with the artist. This giant, 24x17 inch, 822-page magnum opus features state-of-the-art color accuracy and printing fidelity, color-matched against the actual frescoes, to produce a 1:1 life-scale rendering of masterworks by Michelangelo, Botticelli, Perugino, and other Renaissance artists as the world has never seen them. The worldwide publication is limited to 1,999 copies, with only 600 sets available in the English language for the world. The work will never be reprinted. A portion of proceeds from sales is given to the Vatican Museums. The Sistine Chapel is an art treasure for the ages, to acquire or to give as the heirloom of a lifetime. SPECIFICATIONS: THREE VOLUMES Page count: 822 total pages for the three volumes Trim size of each volume: 24 x 17 inches (portrait) Weight: 25 lbs. for each volume; 75 lbs. total Gigapixel photography color-matched against the original frescoes with 99.4% accuracy Printed and bound in Italy in six-color offset lithography, including 220, 24 x 51-inch gatefolds Printed on Fedrigoni Symbol Tatami paper Each signature is hand-gathered and each volume is hand-bound in three-piece Bodoniana sewn binding in silk printed with metallic ink. The spines in white calf leather from matched hides are debossed in silver, gold, and platinum foil stamping Typographic design by Jerry Kelly Debossed handmade Italian endpapers featuring Cosmati mosaic tile floor patterns in the Sistine Chapel Each volume is protected in a custom cotton sleeve and a pair of white cotton gloves is provided for archival handling Bespoke handmade gift box for each volume and for the boxed ensemble, printed in white and silver ink with matte film lamination with reclosable fasteners Custom-designed viewing stand and cabinet available upon special order.