The Rule, the Bible, and the Council. The Library of the Benedictine Abbey at Praglia.

Seattle: College Art Association, 1998,

First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 200 pp. College Art Association, Very fine copy. Item #12014

This book focuses on the original arrangement and significance of the library decorations of the Benedictine monastery at Praglia near Padua. This series of twenty-four paintings on canvas by Battista Zelotti, dated around 1570, consists of religious allegories and scenes from the Old and New Testaments displayed in various-shaped compartments in the ceiling and large rectangular canvases on the walls. The authors reconstruct the library room using physical, on-site evidence, extant documents concerning the furnishings, measusrements of the paintings, and early descriptions to recreate with computer technology the room furnished and decorated in 1562 -- ca. 1570.

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