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Compendious Description of the Museums of Ancient Sculpture, Greek and Roman, in the Vatican Palace; Greek and Roman, in the Vatican Palace with the Addition of the Etruscan and Egyptian Museums--


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: - AUTHOR'S PREFACE. The total want of a Compendious Description of the Vatican Museum and Galleries in the English language, has induced the Author, for a time to turn his attention from more serious studies, to satisfy the desire of many Persons interested in the Fine Arts, by preparing a smaller edition of his Complete Guide-Book of the Vatican now exhausted; a new edition of which will soon be published. In issuing the present Catalogue, the Author's chief object has been to render it useful to that special class of Travellers, who, whilst desiring a correct description of the different works of art, might, from the limited time at their disposal, consider the larger one too voluminous. In furtherance of this object, the Author has carefully abstained from any archaeological discussion on the relative merit of the works of art, mentioned herein. In order to render more complete the present Description, to the choicest monuments of Sculpture is added a more accurate narrative of the Etruscan and Egyptian Museums, of the Gallery of Tapestries, of the Geographical Maps of Italy, of Assyrian Monuments, and of the Borgia Apartment. Following tbe plan of the larger Catalogue, the present one is divided into seven parts viz: 1st- Historical Account of the Vatican Palace. 2nd. The Pio-Clementino Museum, comprising the Hall of the Greek Cross; the Round Hall; the Hall of the Muses; Hall of the Animals; Gallery of Statues and Busts; Cabinet of the Masks; the Octangular Belvedere Court, with the adjoining Hall of Meleager, Round Vestibule and Square Vestibule. 3rd- The Braccio Nuovo Chiaramonti, (New Wing); the Chiaramonti Museum, (Old Wing). 4th- The Gallery of Inscriptions, and the Borgia Apartment. 5th- Continuation of the Pio-Clementino Museum, with the..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217462525
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217462529
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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