This summer, the David Owsley Museum of Art presents The Sistine Chapel Trilogy, a three-volume publication with color plates of every painting in the chapel, including several details reproduced at actual size. Measuring 24 by 17 inches and weighing 75 pounds, the 822 pages feature foldouts as large as 62 inches across. Bound in silk and calfskin in northern Italy by the only bindery in the world that produces books of this size, only 600 copies were printed in English.
Changing displays of the open volumes are on view in the Brown Study Room through September 3rd during regular museum hours (9a-4:30p Tues-Fri, 1:30p-4:30p Sat). Following this public exhibition, the books will remain in the museum's collection and available to students and researchers upon request.