Madonna: tesouros dos museus do Vaticano. / Treasures of the Vatican Museums.

Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga / Imprensa Nacional, 2017.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Very large. 4° (28.2 x 24.1 cm.), original illustrated wrappers. As new. 274 pp., (2) ll., 1 blank l., profusely illustrated in color, footnotes, side notes, bibliography. Texts in Portuguese and English. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Substantial catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga from 19 May to 10 September 2017. Alessandra Rodolfo contributed essays on the history and identity of the museums of the Vatican, and a homage to Rafael (Room VIII of the Pinacoteca Vaticana). José Alberto Seabra Carvalho writes on a Portuguese commission of Michelangelo. The catalogue is divided into two main sections: images of Mary in Italian collections from antiquity to the twentieth century, and Italian images of Mary in Portuguese collections, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. The bibliography occupies pp. 199-215.***