Views of Rome From the Thomas Ashby Collection in the Vatican Library

Keaveney, Raymond

ISBN 10: 093574892X / ISBN 13: 9780935748925

Published by Scala Books, 1988

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A large, heavy book of 304pp, with laminated illustrated soft covers. 81 full-page colour illustrations, with their descriptions. A clean Near Fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 11724

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Views of Rome From the Thomas Ashby Collection in the Vatican Library
• Publisher: Scala Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 093574892X
• ISBN 13: 9780935748925
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art & Antiques
  • Travel
  • History

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Synopsis

This fascinating exhibition of "Views of Rome: Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana" gives the visitor a unique opportunity to observe European draftsmanship of the highest order from the Renaissance to the age of Romanticism. The exhibition does not present a historic survey of European drawing of Rome, but it does exemplify the richness and importance of the Vatican Library collections, as well as providing a reflection of the development of public and private taste. In this regard the Vatican Library is unique among the great European libraries, as it has been from its foundation intended as a public collection.