(Boston: The Bulfinch Press / Little Brown and Company, 1996).

FIRST EDITION. A DAZZLING OVERVIEW OF THE ENORMOUS ART COLLECTIONS WITHIN VATICAN CITY "Includes the Vatican Museum proper, the Palace, and the Borgia Palace.. Spans the entire history of painting in the Middle Ages to the 18thc." Find the works of Giotto, Bellini, Raphael, Da Vinci, Poussin, Titian, and many others.. Essays by: Guido Cornini, Anna Maria De Strobel, Maria Serlupi Crescenzi. Item #30779

First Edition. Beautifully Illustrated in colour with a vast profusion of plates, many full or double page. Folio, publisher's original royal-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover, in the full colour decorated dust jacket. 605pp. An excellent copy, near as pristine and very fine indeed.