Winckelmann and the Vatican's First Profane Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.

Offers the first-ever historical descriptions of the foundation of the "Museo Profano" inside the Vatican in 1761. Using the palace records from the Vatican's Secret Archives, Ruprecht demonstrates that the Vatican museum was the brainchild of J.J. Winckelmann, the so-called father of Art History.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023011069X
• ISBN13: 9780230110694
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"