About the Book:

Heywood Hill is proud to play a supporting role in one of  the publishing events of the decade. We have been selected as the exclusive London bookseller for this exceptional publication.

The Vatican Museum and the esteemed Italian art publisher Scripta Maneant have joined forces to produce an extraordinary three-volume photographic record of the Sistine Chapel. Using the latest photographic technology more than 270,000 images were shot by a team of photographers over the course of 65 nights, working while the Vatican is closed from 7pm until 2am. The results have been stitched together electronically to reveal the frescoes by Michelangelo and other masters in unprecedented colour and detail. 

Only 1999 copies are being prepared. The first has been presented to His Holiness the Pope. 100 copies have been reserved in Italy. A display copy is currently available to view at Heywood Hill.

Exclusive offer: if you purchase a copy of La Cappella Sistina from Heywood Hill the publishers would be delighted to arrange a private visit to the Sistine Chapel for you outside opening hours, with an expert guide from the Vatican Museum for two people.

Vol 1. The 15th century frescoes. The paintings of the south wall, north, west and portraits of pontiffs above.

Vol 2. The Ceiling. Michelangelo tells the story of humanity before the coming of Christ, connecting to the stories of the wall.

Vol 3. The Last Judgment. Two lunette. Christ the Judge and the Virgin among the blessed. End of times.

About the Publisher:

Scripta Maneant is a publishing house, founded in 2007, which purpues editorial aims inspired by highest values of art and culture. Every Scripta Maneant volume is a unicum entrusted to the best intellectual and artistic competences, and is carried out according to criteria of great craft-made mastery, as a tribute to excellence in the fields of the Italian expressiveness and human talent.

Details:

Each volume 43.5cm x 61cm; details scaled 1:1. 
Stitched binding with ivory headbands; leather spine, white hot foil printings. Hexachrome Offset Printing on Fedrigoni Tatami White 170 g/m² paper. Endpapers one-color “silver” printed on Fedrigoni Tatami White 200 g/ m². paper. Cover in boards coupled with 3+3 mm, coated with Cordenons Stardream 120 g/m2. Printed and bound in Italy.
Numbered edition limited to 1,999 copies

For more information, email books@heywoodhill.com.