The complete, unpublished, definitive work

A never-before-seen exhibition in terms of close-up detail and completeness of the entire pictorial cycle of the Dome designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi and frescoed by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari in the second half of the 16th century.
A new, exclusive Scripta Maneant photographic campaign that reveals every hidden side of the corpus of frescoes in the Dome and provides a previously unseen and complete view.

Images of all the exteriors of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore of all the decorated doors and therefore of all the works of the interior, the stained glass windows, the choir, the sacristies, the tribunes, the works of the naves and the counter-façade, the crypt of Santa Reparata.

Exhibition of every detail of Giotto’s bell tower, with particular attention to the external sculptural decoration and the details of all the tiles kept in the Museum.

Complete exhibition of all the works of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, walls, floor with particular detail of all the scenes of the mosaics of the dome.

Characteristics of the work

• Size cm 43,5 x 61
• 3 Volumes:
  The Dome of the Cathedral: pp. 268, 12 sextuples
  Cathedral and Bell Tower pp. 258, 11 sextuples
  The Baptistery of San Giovanni pp. 252, 10 sextuples
• ISBN
  The Dome of the Cathedral: 978-88-95847-98-6
  The Cathedral and Bell-Tower: required
  The Baptistery of San Giovanni: required
• Print run limited_1999
• Text_ Italiano/English
• Printing in ESACROMIA offset on Fedrigoni Tatami White 170 gsm paper
• Endpapers printed in one “silver” colour on Fedrigoni Tatami White 200 gsm paper
• Cover: 3+3 mm laminated cardboard plate, coated with Cordenons Stardream 120 gsm. Spine in coloured leather in three colours, one for each volume and imprints in white foil colour.
• Each volume covered in a different colour of leather

Authors

Marco Bussagli Art historian, he is a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

Mina Gregori A milestone in Italian art history, Professor Emeritus of Modern Art History at the University of Florence.

Timothy Verdon Art historian trained at Yale University. He is Director of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence.

Photographers

BAMSphoto Founded as a photographic studio in 1978 and in over 30 years of work it has collected over 750,000 images through techniques and specialisations including aerial photography, art and heritage, landscape and tourism, architecture and archaeology.

Carlo Vannini He is one of Italy’s leading art photographers. He teaches Photography for Cultural Heritage at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.