Enrico Bruschini. Scala. Size: 250 x 210 mm / 8.25 x 10 in. Softcover, Pages: 144. Images: 160 €10. The Vatican Museums contain some of the greatest Western art. Collected by successive popes since the early 15th century, thousands of works of art are housed in the papal palace and elsewhere in the Vatican. With several museums, Library exhibition rooms…
Politics, Piety, and Art, 1450-1700. Hollingsworth & Richardson. Hardcover with dust jacket. 441 pages. Black and white photos and a color photo section in the center of the book. Weighs 1,515 grams. €40. Like new condition. Don’t think of this as a list of things a cardinal can buy; think of this as a study of who commissioned what and…
Five centuries of history. Carlo Pietrangeli. Quasar edition. 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white and color photos throughout. weighs 1,830, but oversized. https://edizioniquasar.it/products/2117 has a softcover for €75. €40 some underlining and elegantly written side notes. This is not a tourist book, but a serious look into the history and development of the museums. A great museum…
Full title: Raphael’s Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. John Shearman. 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket. Many black and white as well as color pictures. 258 pages. 1,430 grams. John Shearman (1931-2003) was the leading expert on Raphael in the second half of the 20th century. A student, and subsequently…
Willy Pocino. softcover, 494 pagine, Indice dei nomi. peso 540 grammi. Questo libro presenta, sotto forma di un itinerario alfabetico-toponomastico, i piccoli, numerosissimi tasselli che costituiscono il grande mosaico di una Roma segreta e misteriosa, nell’intento di guidare il lettore alla scoperta di una dimensione cittadina quasi sconosciuta. Condition – slight yellowing around page edges. €5.
Amanda Claridge, 1998. softcover, 455 pages. weighs 582 grams. Some underlining, mainly clean copy. €5. An indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 AD. Included are such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and the Catacombs. Divided into twelve…
Brossura, pagine 265 in carta patinata, riccamente illustrato a colori, formato 24,5 X 17 cm., in 8°. Prefazione di Giorgio Napolitano. Introduzione storica di Louis Godart. Contributi di: Francesco Colalucci, Loretta Dolcini, Alessandra Ghidoli, Marco Lattanzi, Maria Giuseppina Lauro, Luisa Morozzi, Maria Rovigatti, Maria Angela San Mauro. Fotografie di Giovanni Ricci Novara. A cura di Luciana del Buono. Volume in…
Touring Club Italiano, Paolo Moreno, Chiara Stefani. Anno 2000.softcover, 415 pagine. peso 480 g. €10. Celebri tesori d’arte arredano gli inimitabili scenari di una dimora principesca: alla Galleria Borghese è dedicata questa guida, realizzata con la collaborazione della Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici di Roma e della Direzione del Museo. L’itinerario di visita si snoda attraverso le sale…
by Arti Doria Pamphilj, 1997. trans. Brendan Withe. 97 pages, softcover. minor underlining. €5.
Domus Aurea, English Edition. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Electa. Softcover, 102 pages. clean – no underlining. €5. The Valley of the Colosseum. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Electa. Softcover, 53 pages. Some underlining. €4. Must buy with something else. The Roman Forum. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Electa. Softcover, 73 pages. clean, no marks. €4. Must buy with…