Vatican museums: Rome.
[Texts by Gigetta Dalli Regoli and others]
- New York, Newsweek [1968]
- 171 pages color illustrations, plans 30 cm.
- Great museums of the world. .
- Great museums of the world (Newsweek) .
Includes bibliographical references (page 168)
Museo Gregoriano-Etrusco, Museo Pio-Clemention, Museo Chiaramonti -- Library, museo sacro, museo profano -- Sistine chapel, Pauline chapel -- Raphael's stanze -- Pinacoteca, Chapel of Nicholas V, Borgia apartments -- History of the museums and their buildings.
Here are the choicest of the Papal treasures that for centuries have drawn the art lover to Rome. Here the reader will find the whole range of the collections -- from the glorious marble statues and frescoes of classical antiquity through the illuminated leaves of Medieval manuscripts to the full splendors of High Renaissance and Baroque painting.