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Michelangelo

the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rome
1996
Discusses Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes within the context of their site, cultural circumstances, production, narrative and compositional structure, style, and theological significance, and includes thirty-eight color plates of the Renaissance masterpiece.

Raphael

The Stanza della Segnatura
1993

Basilica

the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's
2006
Chronicles the construction of St. Peter's Basilica from its beginnings in 1506 to its completion more than two centuries later, and discusses how the Basilica's construction impacted the Catholic Church and European history.

Spies in the Vatican

espionage & intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust
2002
A history of intelligence operations and covert activities inside the Vatican during the reigns of ten popes from Pius VII, Napoleon's nemesis, to Pius XII, sometimes called "Hitler's pope.".

The Vatican

2004
History of the buildings, occupants, and uses of the Vatican in Rome.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

2004
Presents an examination of the life, paintings, and sculpture, of Michelangelo, including forty colorplates from throughout his career, discussing the evolution of his art in words and pictures.

The Sistine Chapel

a new light on Michelangelo : the art, the history, and the restoration
1986

Angels & demons

2000
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol that has been seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, and to his surprise and horror he discovers that an ancient secret brotherhood has resurfaced.

Michelangelo

the Sistine ceiling restored
1993
Explores the cultural impact of Michelangelo's work and the conservation process of the entire Genesis series.

Angels & demons

2001
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murder victim, where he discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient brotherhood with a vendetta against the Catholic Church.

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