Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

by Ghigo Roli, Stephen Sartarelli, Giorgio Bonsanti

Book Overview

This book contains a collection of photographs taken immediately before the September 1997 earthquake which virtually destroyed the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, Italy. It features the last pictures of the basilica's vault while still intact, with its frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810927675
• ISBN13: 9780810927674
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.5" x 12.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Everything it promises to be!

As an art history major who lived and studied in Italy, and saw this magnificent church before the earthquake, this book provides an excellent history. How wonderful to have photographic evidence of it's prior beauty, and the video clips of the destruction. I visited the church again this October (1998), and it was so wonderful to see the careful restoration. This book will not dissapoint those of you who want photographic history.