中文简介：

本书内容丰富，图文并茂，为读者提供了梵蒂冈文艺复兴时期壁画的特写。

从15世纪末开始，意大利文艺复兴时期的伟大艺术家被召集到罗马装饰梵蒂冈的墙壁和天花板。专家级修复师毛里齐奥·德·卢卡（Maurizio De Luca）在梵蒂冈博物馆工作了40年，包括担任绘画修复实验室的首席修复师15年。他亲自监督了过去半个世纪的重要修复工作，包括佩鲁吉诺、波提切利等其他画家在西斯廷教堂里的壁画；平图里基奥在波吉亚公寓里的壁画；拉斐尔画室；以及米开朗基罗在使徒宫波林礼拜堂的最后两幅壁画。

德·卢卡在这本通俗易懂的书中传达了只有经过仔细观察才能获取的知识。读者可以深入了解每位艺术家独特且富有表现力的挑战、选择和技术，还展示了保护过程如何丰富了对这些标志性作品的理解和解读。

英文简介：

Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up "view from the scaffolding" of some of the greatest Renaissance wall paintings at the Vatican.

Beginning in the late 1400s, the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy were summoned to Rome, where they decorated the walls and ceilings of the Vatican. Expert restorer Maurizio De Luca spent his forty-year career in the Vatican Museums, including fifteen years as head restorer of the Painting Restoration Laboratory. He personally oversaw some of the most important restorations of the last half century, including wall paintings by Perugino, Botticelli, and others on the walls of the Sistine Chapel; the Pintoricchio wall paintings in the Borgia Apartments; the Raphael Rooms; and the last two frescoes by Michelangelo, in the Pauline Chapel at the Apostolic Palace.

In this accessible and copiously illustrated book, De Luca conveys the kind of knowledge that can only be derived from close personal observation. The reader is offered a stunningly intimate perspective that illuminates the distinctive expressive challenges, choices, and techniques of each artist and demonstrates how the conservation process enriches the understanding and interpretation of these iconic works.