Published as the catalogue of an exhibition which opened in Los Angeles in February 1998 before moving to St Louis, Detroit, Baltimore and West Palm Beach, this study of angels in art through the ages draws on the extensive collections of the Vatican. The Vatican's collections date from the time of the Renaissance, since when the popes have collected and commissioned paintings, sculpture, liturgical vessels, vestments and tapestries. Reproduced here are more than 100 treasures by artists such as Gentile da Fabriano, Fra Angelico, Ghirlandaio, Raphael, Veronese, Rouault and Salvador Dali, as well as ancient works by Assyrian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman artists. Arnold Nesselrath provides an essay on the iconography of angels in the Western artistic tradition, and a team of scholars contribute additional pieces and a history of the Vatican collections.

Angels from the Vatican: The Invisible Made Visible

Arts & Photography

Art Services International

Sannibale, Maurizio

Liverani, Paolo

Cole, Basil

Christian, Robert

Nesselrath, Arnold

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Book by Rieman, Timothy D., Buck, Susan L.

Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship - The Mount Lebanon Collection

Rieman, Timothy D.

Chrysler Museum

Buck, Susan L.

Art Services Intl

Book by Wildman, Stephen, Marsh, Jan, Christian, John

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England

Marsh, Jan

Christian, John

Wildman, Stephen

Italian Paintings from Burghley House

Brigstocke, Hugh

Frick Art Museum (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Somerville, John

Oversize book. Many beautiful pictures.

Old Masters Brought to Light: European Paintings from the National Museum of Art of Romania

DeGrazia, Diane

Muzeul National De Arta (Romania)

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists working in Paris at the turn of the century. His distinctive and original posters and his decorative panels in le style Mucha became almost synonymous with French Art Nouveau. The admirer and iconographer of Sarah Bernhardt, he was also well known as the creator of familiar advertisements and as a book illustrator. Yet there was much more to Mucha's achievement than this. At the height of his career as a decorative artist, he became convinced that art should serve ideas, he became chief artistic and cultural adviser to the interwar Czech government, and he completed a major and controversial fresco cycle, the Slav Epic, as well as portraits and large symbolic paintings.
This book -- the first full-scale treatment of Mucha's oeuvre -- includes discussions and reproductions of paintings, posters, panneaux decoratifs, pastels, drawings, and illustrations from throughout his career. In addition, the authors provide essays on Mucha's Paris years; his association with Sarah Bernhardt; the importance of American patronage on his later work; his graphic and painterly techniques; and the problems connected with the conservation of the large canvases.
This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition of Mucha's work that will tour the United States, beginning in San Diego in 1998.

Alphonse Mucha--The Spirit of Art Nouveau

Arwas, Victor

Mucha, Alphonse Marie

Brabcová-Orlíková, Jana

Dvorák, Anna

Dvoiak, Anna

Individual Artists

San Diego Museum of Art

Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection

Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art

Rogers, J.M.

Drawn Toward the Avant-Garde: Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century French Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

Statens Museum for Kunst

Frandsen, Jan Wurtz

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Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum

Delaware Art Museum

History & Criticism

Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes

Duston, Allen

Zagnoli, Roberto

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Religion & Spirituality

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