Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600, Julian Kliemann & Michael Rohlmann, Fine HC

Kliemann, Julian. Michael Rohlmann. New York. Abbeville Press. 2024.

English, English Edition, Fine, HC, Folio 13" X 11", 496 pp.

ISBN: 0789208318

Fine folio, grey cloth over board, gilt-stamped titling to spine. Binding tight, sharp tips, and no markings throughout. Near fine dust jacket featuring image of Raphael’s Parnassus and white lettering to front, image of Sala di Psiche’s ceiling vault frescoes to back. Minor sunning to spine otherwise clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Text in English. 496 pp. Full-color decorative endpapers featuring details of Sala del Mappamondo frescoes by Giovanni de’Vecchi and Raffaellino da Reggio. Replete with full-color photographs by Antonio Quattrone and Ghigo Roli of various Italian frescoes from the High Renaissance and Mannerist movement. Contents include 460 reproduced full-color images and 60 black-and-white illustrations and plans. This beautifully illustrated, comprehensive survey of Italy’s greatest frescoes respectfully showcases the most outstanding examples of the religious and secular currents of the 16^th century and provides incredible close-up images of these frescoes, including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace.