Vatican: All the Paintings: The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and other Artifacts

Great art book. Great service.

This book has it all. Amazing reference on the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel. A little lighter on St Peter’s but covers some of the best sculptures. I am enjoying it immensely.

Traveled to Italy and wanted this to look at the paintings of Italy.. Like the book and it is as described.

Beautiful for a coffee table

After a recent visit to the Vatican my wife and I wanted an opportunity to relive our visit by looking at published images of what we had seen.The quality of the images in this book is much better than any photos we were able to take, and there are so many images included in the book that we were able to see only briefly or from a distance or not at all.Tip: If you take a guided tour of the Vatican, consider signing up for the Vatican breakfast-plus-tour. The breakfast is served in a Vatican courtyard and includes milk and yogurt from the cows on the Pope's farm--quite a treat!

This book is really high quality. It has a thick cover on top of the hardbound cover it has on the book itself. I didn't know it was so high quality when I purchased it. I had expected a nice paperback, so when I got a collector-quality hardbound oversized book in an outer hard shell as well, I was really pleasantly surprised. It is definitely a book that will last a very long time. I'm an artist myself, so I'm extremely pleased with the quality and the contents of the book.

The magnificent artwork along with the curating is exceptional. It proudly sits on my coffee table along with another remarkable book hosting a collection of paintings. It has been been beautifully choreographed both literally and figuratively. You will not be disappointed. I promise.

It is great to have a record of all the paintings in the Vatican. The only problem I have is that some of the image quality is not up to par. (Overall the Louvre book has better reproductions but that collection is more accessible.) Several of the Sistine Chapel frescoes are illustrated with images from prior to the restoration that was completed in 1999. In particular the Michelangelo lunettes which are overexposed images of the pre-cleaned frescoes. Also their are a 2-3 heavily pixelated images due to being overly enlarged. Most of the images, and there are almost a thousand, are of good quality. I would recommend Taschen's recent XL book on Michelangelo for a more accurate representation of the Sistine Chapel's frescoes and the "Loggia of Raphael" by Abbeville for the same reason. Glad to have it, but wish the editors dug a little deeper some of the images.