Title: The Vatican :
Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Date: 1982
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Physical description: 398 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps, plans ; 32 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: Message / Pope John Paul II -- Historical note / John Daley -- The government of the church / Alfons M. Stickler -- The Vatican City State / José M. Sánchez de Muniáin : The instruments of social communication / Virgilio Levi ; The Vatican radio / Roberto Tucci ; The Press Office of the Holy See / Federico Alessandrini -- Saint Peter's : The tomb of Peter and the Constantinian Basilica / José Ruysschaert ; New Saint Peter's / Ennio Francia ; The wooden cathedra / Michele Maccarrone -- The apostolic palace / Deoclecio Redig de Campos -- Other buildings and the Vatican gardens / Eva-Maria Jung-Inglessis -- The Vatican museums : Introduction / Deoclecio Redig de Campos ; The Museo Pio-clementino ; The Museo Chiaramonti / Georg Daltrop ; The Museo Gregoriano Etrusco / Francesco Ronacalli ; The Museo Gregoriano Egizio / Gianfranco Nolli ; The Museo Gregoriano Profano / Georg Daltrop ; The Museo Pio Christiano / Enrico Josi ; The Museo Missionario Etnologico / Jozef Penkowski ; The Pinacoteca Vaticana / Maria Donati Barcellona ; The Museo Storico / Annunzio Gandolfi and Carlo De Vita ; The Collezione d'Arte Religiosa Moderna / Mario Ferrazza and Patrizia Pignatti -- The Apostolic Vatican Library / José Ruysschaert -- The Vatican Secret Archive / Martino Giusti -- The pilgrimage basilicas : Introduction / John Daley ; San Giovanni in Laterano : San Paolo fuori le Mura ; Santa Maria Maggiore / Ennio Francia ; San Lorenzo fuoir le Mura ; Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ; San Sebastiano fuori le Mura / John Daley -- The catacombs / Umberto Fasola -- Palaces of the Holy See in Rome -- The Lateran palace ; The Cancelleria : The Palazzo di Propaganda Fide / John Daley -- Plan of old Saint Peter's -- Map of the catacombs -- Saint Peter and his successors.
Notes: Publication authorized by the Vatican and published in connection with the exhibition 'The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art' organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Based in part on the Vatican and Christian Rome, published in 1975 by Libreria editrice Vaticana"--T.p. verso. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art--Vatican City.; Christian art and symbolism--Vatican City.; Vatican Palace (Vatican City)