The Sistine Chapel – 2 Volume Set

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ISBN is 0810904799 / 9780810904798
Published by Harry N Abrams Inc 1965
Condition: Very Good+Edition: First
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Description

The Sistine Chapel – 2 Vols. These two folio volumes contain the most complete coverage of the Sistine Chapel possible within the pages of a book. The text, lavishly illustrated with tipped-on black-and-white plates and color plates, charts, and diagrams, has been divided into several parts. From Roberto Salvini, eminent professor of the University of Florence, comes the grand account of the whole and its parts; from Ettore Camesasaca, a distinguished younger schooler, comes and exacting study of the literary and critical sources that have accumulated since 1541 (when the completed Chapel was unveiled) concerning each scene and figure as well as ceremonies, architectural aspects, and contemporary letters, poems, and drawings; Professor Carlo Ragghianti of the University of Pisa, contributes a summation of the system of decoration. Descriptions, historical background, documents and literature, and great events are covered, and there is a full apparatus of notes and bibliography. The second volume is devoted to extraordinary, full-page, colorplates, several of them multi-paged fold-outs. Not only are whole walls and ceilings shown i stunning totality, but actual-size details of the frescoes make it possible to examine these with cinematic clarity. The result is an overwhelming effect of power and immediacy; no visitor to the Chapel itself can receive all the impressions this book provides. Book text is in English.

Additional information

Book Author

Paolo Lecaldano, Roberto Salvini

Publisher

Harry N Abrams Inc

Published

1965

Edition

First

ISBN 10

0810904799

ISBN 13

9780810904798

Language

English

Condition

Very Good+

Format

Hardcover

  • Mustard Cloth Slipcase
  • Slipcase Broken From One Side
  • Mustard Cloth Cover With Gilt Title
  • Dust Jacket
  • Untrimmed
  • Extremely Slight Foxing
  • 323 illustration
  • 260 Colour
  • Very Good+ in Condition