Vatican Museums

Photographic volume, in bilingual version – Italian and English – also available in a prestigious edition in slipcase, dedicated to the paintings conserved in the Vatican Museums.
Richly illustrated with splendid colour images offering an extensive and unprecedented view of the works of art, via whole images and full page details, highlighting their beauty.

Antonio Paolucci, former Director of the “Pope’s Museums”, provides an evocative art-historical framework for the prestigious museum spaces and the pictorial masterpieces displayed there – all extensively illustrated – recounting their exhibition and display history: the Pinacoteca, with paintings by Giotto, Caravaggio and Guido Reni; the Niccoline Chapel with frescoes by Beato Angelico; the Borgia Apartment with Pinturicchio’s masterpieces; the frescoes of the Raphael Rooms and the Gallery of the Geographical Maps, and Francesco Podesti’s Room of the Immaculate Conception.