‎Hirst Michael, Colalicci Gianluigi‎
‎Sistine Chapel‎

‎Santa Maria Antiqua: The Sistine Chapel of the Early Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2021 Hardback, iv + 502 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:50 b/w, 125 col., 30 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9781909400535.‎

‎Summary The Santa Maria Antiqua Complex in the Forum in Rome was probably established at the foot of the Palatine Hill in the 6th century. Over the following 600 years it was decorated with a unique series of frescoes bearing evidence of imperial, papal and monastic influences. Abandoned in the 9th century, limited use probably continued up to the 11th century. By the 17th century the complex was completely buried under the rising floor of the Forum. Excavations in 1900 exposed a largely intact complex containing hundreds of 6th - 11th century frescoes, in some places over four layers deep and a unique Chapel of Medical Saints which suggests this was also an incubation site. The English Press hailed the site as the 'Sistine Chapel of the Ninth century'. Lavish illustrations of these frescoes, following recent restoration, make this book an indispensible resource, not only for those working on the church but also for those interested in contemporaneous material in medieval sites especially in Rome, Europe and Byzantium. This monograph contains the proceedings of an International Conference held at the British School at Rome on 4-6 December, 2013. It reports results of the major project of preservation and research led by the Soprintendenza and carried out over the last 12 years on the fabric of the church, its frescoes, floor, wall and ceiling mosaics, its drainage and infrastructure. Much of the restoration was funded by the World Monuments Fund. The conference also marked the 75th anniversary of the death of Gordon Rushforth, the first Director of the British School at Rome and the author of one of the earliest key papers on the S. Maria Antiqua site. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION by Eileen Rubery, Giulia Bordi, John Osborne TIMELINE TOPOGRAPHIC REFERENCES LIST OF COLOUR PLATES COLOUR PLATES HISTORIOGRAPHY Oscar Mei 1702: The discovery of Santa Maria Antiqua T.P. Wiseman Gordon McNeil Rushforth and Santa Maria Antiqua Andrea Paribeni 'With Boni in the Forum'. The relationship between Gordon McNeil Rushforth and Giacomo Boni according to archival documentation Ernesto Monaco Measuring Santa Maria Antiqua: from Petrignani to the present Giovanni Gasbarri 'Ce monument est avant tout un t moin': Wladimir de Gr neisen and the multicultural context of Santa Maria Antiqua John Osborne Per Jonas Nordhagen, Santa Maria Antiqua, and the study of early medieval painting in Rome TOPOGRAPHY Henry Hurst The early church of Santa Maria Antiqua David Knipp Richard Delbr ck and the reconstruction of a 'ceremonial route' in Domitian's palace vestibule Robert Coates-Stephens The 'Oratory of the Forty Martyrs' CONSERVATION Giuseppe Morganti "Per meglio provvedere alla conservazione dei dipinti ?". 1984-2014: Santa Maria Antiqua 30 Years Later Werner Schmid Diary of a long conservation campaign The palimpsests of Santa Maria Antiqua Maria Andaloro The Project Giulia Bordi The three Christological cycles in the sanctuary of Santa Maria Antiqua Paola Pogliani, Claudia Pelosi, Giorgia Agresti Palimpsests and pictorial phases in the light of studies of the techniques of execution and the materials employed ICONOGRAPHY Per Olav Folger Expression of Dogma: Text and imagery in the triumphal arch decoration Manuela Gianandrea The fresco with the Three Mothers and the paintings of the right aisle in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua Maria Grafova The decorations in the left aisle of Santa Maria Antiqua within the context of the political history of the Iconoclastic era Marios Costambeys Pope Hadrian I and Santa Maria Antiqua: Liturgy and patronage in the late eighth century RE-READING THE DECORATIVE PROGRAMME Giulia Bordi The apse wall of Santa Maria Antiqua (IV-IX centuries) Eileen Rubery Monks, Miracles and Healing. Doctrinal Belief and Miraculous Interventions: Saints Abbacyrus and John at Santa Maria Antiqua and related Roman Churches between the sixth and the twelfth centuries Richard Price The frescoes in Santa Maria Antiqua, the Lateran Synod of 649, and pope Vitalian Beat Brenk A new chronology of the worship of images in Santa Maria Antiqua AFTERWORD Maria Andaloro The icon of Santa Maria Nova after Santa Maria Antiqua‎

‎Michelangelos Hall. Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. In Russian (ask us if in dou‎

‎Michelangelos Hall. Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Kholl M. Mikelandzhelo. Freski Sikstinskoy kapelly.. Classics of World Art. M. White City Publishing House. 2003. SKUalb4b7a191b01aebadd.‎

‎Sistine Chapel. A tour of the images. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Sikstinska‎

‎Sistine Chapel. A tour of the images. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Sikstinskaya kapella. Ekskursiya po obrazam. Photo Archive of the Vatican Museums. Text: S. Gallico. Translated by M. Talalai. Rome ATS Italia Editrice 2002. 120 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbca54426a68ae415e‎

‎Paolucci A. Sistine Chapel. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Paoluchchi A. Siksti‎

‎Paolucci A. Sistine Chapel. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Paoluchchi A. Sikstinskaya kapella. M. Word 2019. 360 p. SKUalbc11bd60e517f9074.‎

‎Album with 13 original albumine photographs depicting engravings of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, designed by Michelangelo Buonarotti.‎

‎" Paris, Atelier Central de Photographie, s.d. ( ca. 1865), 13 original photographs (200 x 305 mm), mounted on stiff board, with the company's blindstamp in the margin. The photographs depict interpretation engravings of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican : a general view of the ceiling and 12 detailed views of the paintings in between the windows. In E.A. McCauley's study on Collard ( Industrial Madness, commercial photography in Paris 1848 - 1871 - pp 221) the author mentions a contract made out by Collard for reproductive photography of Italian art based on engravings by Forster. Probably these photographs are derived from this contract. Also bound in in the album : Logia di Rafaele nel Vaticano, 9 large similar photographs, one with a blind stamp in the margin : ''Photographie LAMPUÉ rue Saint Jacques Paris''; and another 10 leaves containing each 4 original photographs ( postcard format) of groteskes ( unsigned. The plateds bound in a red half morocco contemporary binding, boards covered with marbled paper, (paper at back cover partly gone, some signs of use at binding, on the whole still a good binding. Interior fine notwithstanding some sparse faint marginal stains. Interesting early album with reproductive photography of Italian art in the Vatican."‎