The Holy Stairs and the devotional path : Tradition, restoration, rediscovery

Language: English

Published by Edizioni Musei Vaticani, Città del Vaticano, 2023

8882714896 / 9788882714895

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195 b/w and colour + 93 colour tables + 49 colour graphics + 93 micro-photos. This book, published in Italian and English, is entirely dedicated to the recent restoration of the Holy Stairs, the adjacent staircases and the atrium. It concludes a wide project focused on the renovation of the whole Sanctuary, one of the most representative complex of the Christian devotion, started years ago with the restoration of the chapels of St. Silvestro and St. Lorenzo. A first part of the work is focused on the history of the Holy Stairs, with essays. Among many others, the essays by Alessandro Zuccari and Carla Hendriks examine the origin of the frescoes and their attributions. The second part is mainly dedicated to the restoration: Paolo Violini, coordinator of the works and editor of the volume, clearly explains the initial condition and the methods used during the demanding conservative work. The photographic set is particularly rich, and so it is the graphic documentation of the interventions included at the end of the book. The tables reproduce the entire iconographic cycle of the Historia Salutis, with the stories of the Old and New Testament frescoed along the lateral and central staircases, allowing us to closely admire the delicate work of the restorers, who have brought the frescoes back to their original aspect, cleaning them out from the nineteenth-century repainting.…

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Title
The Holy Stairs and the devotional path : Tradition, restoration, rediscovery
Author
Edited by Mary Angela Schroth and Paolo Violini AA.VV. ; Introductions by Barbara Jatta and P. Leonello Leidi, C.P.
Publisher
Edizioni Musei Vaticani, Città del Vaticano
Publication year
2023
Condition
New
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
8882714896
ISBN 13
9788882714895
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Joseph Burridge Books

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