Angels from the Vatican: The Invisible Made Visible

Allen Duston, Arnold Nesselrath, Paolo Liverani, Maurizio Sannibale, et al.

ISBN 10: 0810963558 / ISBN 13: 9780810963559

Published by Art Services International, 1998

About this Item

Art Services International, Alexandria, VA, 1998. Softcover, 320 pp. Showing representations of angels in all traditional media from the extensive collections of the Vatican in Rome. From the Byzantine era, to modern Western art plus winged figures from the time of the Assyrians, Etruscans, and Romans. Profusely illustrated in color. Very good condition.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1650912695454

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Angels from the Vatican: The Invisible Made Visible
• Publisher: Art Services International
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810963558
• ISBN 13: 9780810963559
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Artists & Exhibitions
  • Art

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Synopsis

Published as the catalogue of an exhibition which opened in Los Angeles in February 1998 before moving to St Louis, Detroit, Baltimore and West Palm Beach, this study of angels in art through the ages draws on the extensive collections of the Vatican. The Vatican's collections date from the time of the Renaissance, since when the popes have collected and commissioned paintings, sculpture, liturgical vessels, vestments and tapestries. Reproduced here are more than 100 treasures by artists such as Gentile da Fabriano, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, Raphael, Veronese, Rouault and Salvador Dali, as well as ancient works by Assyrian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman artists. Arnold Nesselrath provides an essay on the iconography of angels in the Western artistic tradition, and a team of scholars contribute additional pieces and a history of the Vatican collections.