About the Book:

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.

These volumes document an unprecedented exhibition of close-up detail, spanning the entire pictorial cycle of the Dome. It was designed and built by Filippo Brunelleschi and frescoed by Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari in the second half of the 16th century. 

The full price for the set of 3 is £17,500. Our price here, £15,750, includes a 10% discount for purchasing all three volumes in advance. Payment can be made for each when published, at a price of £5833.33 per volume. 

To do so, please email us at books@heywoodhill.com.

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.

Vol 1. The Dome of the Cathedral

Vol 2. Cathedral and Bell Tower 

Vol 3. The Baptistery of San Giovanni

About the Publisher:

Scripta Maneant is a publishing house, founded in 2007, which pursues 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:

43.5 x 61 cm, 3 volumes
Numbered edition limited to 1,999 copies