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Amazon.com Review: In 1990, Sophy Burnham's A Book of Angels started one of the most popular fads in publishing history. Now everybody wants in on the angel act, and who could produce a better angel act than the Vatican? This 300- page catalog of an exhibition of works from the Vatican's extensive collection of religious art is a heavenly look at some of the most beautiful pictures of the winged ones ever assembled...read more

The catalog of a major traveling exhibition drawn from the extensive collections of the Vatican and featuring rare and sacred objects includes approximately three hundred illustrations, including 110 in full color, and essays on the iconography of angels. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum of Rotterdam contains some of the most important drawings by Old Masters of Dutch, Flemish, Italian, English, French and Spanish schools from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries. This catalogue includes 104 drawings that range from very early German and Italian artists such as Pisanello and Gozzoli to early Netherlandish artists such as Schonganer, Altdorfer, the van Eyck School, Hieronymus Bosch, to nineteenth century French artists such as Ingres, Manet, Degas and Cézanne...read more