Les fresques du Pinturicchio dans les salles Borgia au Vatican reproductions phototypiques commentaire par le P. François Ehrle et feu le comm. Henri Stevenson

Franz Ehrle

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/3321

Author

Imprint

Rome: Danesi Editeur (via dei Bagni), 1898

Physical Description

82 p., 133 leaves of plates: illus.; 525 mm.

General Note

This work celebrates the restoration of the Borgia Apartment in the Valtican which opened in 1897 and the Pinturicchio frescoes found within.

The volume comprises a dedication to Pope Leo XIII, the text which gives the history of the rooms and the Pinturicchio frescoes, a table of contents and list of the plates and then three plates (A, B, C) of architectural drawings and details before and after the restoration, and finishing with 130 numbered collotype plates of the apartment and frescoes.

Copy Note

On a front flyleaf is a statement which indicates this copy of the work is number 29 of an edition of 100.

Binding Note

The binding has a brown leather spine with gilt lettering, 'Les Fresques Dans Les Salles Borgia Au Vatican'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters, Italy

Contributors

Enrico Stevenson, author
Pope Leo XIII, dedicatee
Bernardino (di Betto) Pinturicchio, source artist
Danesi (Rome), publisher/bookseller, photographic printer, printer