A view of the Vatican
By: text by Carla Cecilia
Publisher: Edizioni Musei Vaticani
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Vatican City State
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9788886921954
Subjects: Vatican Palace (Vatican City); Art; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 141).
Table of contents: title: The Vatican City state --; title: The Governatorato (governorship) --; title: Institutions connected with the Holy See --; title: Historical origins of the Vatican --; title: St. Peter's Basilica. The Constantinian basilica ; The present basilica --; title: The sacred grottoes --; title: The pre-Constantinian necropolis --; title: The sacristy and treasury of St. Peter's --; title: The Apostolic palaces. The Niccoline Chapel ; The Sistine Chapel. The quattrocentists ; The Borgia Apartment ; The Sistine Chapel. The ceiling ; Raphael's stanze. The Stanza della Segnatura ; The Stanza di Eliodoro ; The Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo ; The Stanza di Costantino ; Raphael's Loggia ; The Sistine Chapel. The Last Judgement [sic] ; The Pauline Chapel. Michelangelo's frescoes --; title: The Vatican museums --; title: The Vatican gardens.