Guide to the Masterpieces of the Vatican Picture Gallery: English Language Edition

By Barbara Furlotti

A volume dedicated to the history of the new Vatican Picture Gallery, conceived at the behest of Pope Pius XI and inaugurated in 1932 in a structure specially built in order to definitively house the painting collection. The Picture Gallery, which is in continual expansion due to bequests and acquisitions, gathers together in eighteen chronologically arranged rooms the masterpieces of some of the greatest European painters from the Medieval period to the nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881171775
• ISBN13: 9788881171774
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: International Publishers Marketing, Inc.
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.8"