Dear Publishing Colleague, while FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2012 is approaching, I am glad to propose you: - our novelty list for 2013-14 - the newest issues for this Fall 2012 Please browse our lists of illustrated titles for both: - a general/ family public, as reference and popular science books and - on art, architecture and cultures JACA BOOK proposes illustrated titles, but also excellent children’s and young adults books and outstanding series, opera omnia and essays on human sciences, being specialist in history, medieval studies, philosophy, paleoanthropology, religions, Christian studies. MEETING May I propose you to meet on our stand 5.1 C-927 newly located on: Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 or Friday 12 October? Also Saturday will be possible. Please propose a suitable time. All best wishes yours Silvia Vassena silvia.vassena@jacabook.it International Rights and Co-editions Manager EDITORIALE JACA BOOK SPA - Via G. Frua, 11 - I-20146 Milano, Italy ph +39 02 4856151/ fax +39 02 48193361/ www.jacabook.it www.jacabook.it/art&illustrated

ART | Illustrated | Catalogue | Backlist: browse below EDITORIALE JACA BOOK Spa, Milano at the FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2012 new location BOOTH 5.1 C-927 silvia.vassena@jacabook.it www.jacabook.it/ricerca/main-art.htm

Jaca Book ART at Frankfurt 2012

- excellent international authors - lavish illustrations - licences & co-editions

NOVELTIES ART 2013

ROME FROM THE SKY at a bird’s eye view by C. Frommel, G. Sauron. G. Wiedmann, R. Cassanelli, V. Franchetti Pardo, M.David, A. Campitelli

Grand views of Rome thanks to a specific photographic campaign from helicopter, which documents at a bird-eye view the developments of the town. Various scholars for various periods, from Roman time to 1900 Modernism. 24 x 32,5 cm., 280 colour pp. - 2013

VENEZIA/VENICE: the urban scenery by M. Azzi Visentini

Venice from 1550 to all throughout 1797 resulting in the Venice admired today. Also finest photographs at a bird’ eye view. 24 x 32,5 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

UNIQUE RAVENNA. From Rome to Middleages by M. David

Roman, Barbarian and Byzantine art, building up unique Ravenna. 24 x 32,5 cm., 280 colour pp. - 2013

THE VATICAN GUIDEBOOK TO THE VATICAN (a project sprung from the outstanding Monumenta Vaticana Selecta program)

A Michelin-sized guidebook in softcover. The first ever international complete guide to the Vatican State. Well-acknowledged scholars responsible for Vatican State’s departments contribute to single chapters or paragraphs. A complete introduction to the art in Vatican and a vademecum for every kind of visitor, tourist, cultivated, pilgrim or scholar. Plus an excellent, precise and absolutely detailed apparatus. St Peter’s, Necropolises, Apostolic Palace, Museums, Library, Gardens, modern quarters. 12 x 22,5 cm., 480 colour pp. – 2012/2013

MATISSE. THE TOTAL WORK: la Chapelle de VENCE by Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Seligny

The first complete publication on Matisse’ final and total masterwork. 24 x 32,5 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

The splendour of the BAROQUE IN THE VATICAN (1600–1700) by X. Barrall, G. Wiedmann, N. Marcon, L. Simonato, S. Bolteux, A. Campitelli (Monumenta Vaticana Selecta)

The splendour of the Baroque in the Vatican after the Renaissance. Outside and inside spaces: the Square, St Peter, Apostolic Palace, Gardens. 24 x 32.5 cm., 352 colour pp. - 2013

HISTORY OF ROMAN ART: THE REPUBLIC by G. Sauron

From colonial wars to Augustus. Roman art devours the entire world. 24 x 32.5 cm., 280 colour pp. - 2013

CISTERCIAN ARTS ALONG TWELVE CENTURIES from the 12th cent. to the Contemporary age edited by TERRYL N. KINDER and ROBERTO CASSANELLI

More than 32 international authors, coordinated by Terryl N. Kinder and Roberto Cassanelli, contribute to this unique work on Cistercian arts, aiming to become the essential reference work for art historians, but also for historians of religious anthropology, the Church and medieval society. Covering artistic outcomes worldwide up until nowadays. 24 x 32.5 cm, 432 colour pp. - 2013

ATLAS OF CHINESE ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY edited by C. KONTLER

The first historical atlas of Chinese Art, from the origins until today. A French scholar leads the ‘red thread’ of history, while Chinese colleagues contribute on discoveries, artistical heritage, museums etc. A true up-to-date historical guide, with a compelling illustrated part. 24 x 31 cm, 304 colour pp. – 2013

THE ART OF LADAKH. Treasures of Buddhist art in the Indian Tibet by ERBERTO LO BUE and CHIARA BELLINI

The first exhaustive guide on the art of Ladakh. This work aims at recording the origin and development of Buddhist art in Ladakh through the monuments and inscriptions in the area and at the same time documenting its cultural history through its art works. With 200 colour plates, the volume is provided with maps and a list of all names in the text both in phonetic transcription and transliteration. This work is intended for a wide audience interested in Buddhist, Tibetan and Indian art and their cultural history. Furthermore, it may be used also by students and concerned travellers to Ladakh. 24 x 28 cm, 264 colour pp. - 2013

ROMANESQUE PAINTING by XAVIER BARRAL I ALTET

Xavier Barral i Altet, well-known all over Europe for his studies on Medieval art, presents hereby the koiné of an artistical event called Romanesque in 1800, constituting the highest expression of the creativity of XIth, XIIth until the XIIIth century. 24 x 32.5 cm, 240 colour pp. - 2013

FALL 2012

FALL 2012 – THE VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY (part of the Monumenta Vaticana Selecta project) by Cesare Pasini, Ambrogio Piazzoni, Antonio Manfredi, Dalma Frascarelli, Alessandro Zuccari, Paolo Vian

Started somehow in a muffled way, the library of the Popes had already become during 1500 a place of irreplaceable gathering of Christian and Latin culture, opening up in time to the Antique, to the East and to the Americas. With Sistus V, at the end of Renaissance, the premises grew monumental and today the whole of the Library and its contents occupies a third of the Vatican area. 24 x 32,5 cm., 352 colour pp. – 2012

FALL 2012 – XVIth cent. ARTISTS’ JOURNEY TO ROME from Alonso Berruguete to Pieter Paul Rubens by NICOLE DACOS

During 1500, from all over Europe, from Flanders as from Spain, painters and sculptors came to Rome and were involved in monumental projects, in the Vatican Palace as well as in private palaces. One for all, Raphael’s workshop with Pedro Berruguete, Peter de Kempeneer and all the others artists. Thanks to the “journey to Rome” European art underwent a deep transformation. 25,5 x 28,5 cm, 264 colour pp. – 2012

FALL 2012 – THE ART OF THE GULF OF MEXICO by SARA LADRON DE GUEVARA

The so called ‘Gulf of Mexico’ covers a huge area looking at th Atlantic. Important center of the Olmec civilization, several cultures evolved in its territory and although different created a koiné: the Gulf area is now being considered one of the most fascinating archaeologic-artistical novelties of the whole Mesoamerica. 24 x 32.5 cm, 304 colour pp. – 2012

FALL 2012 – HISTORICAL ATLAS OF ROMAN GARDENS AND VILLAS between Middle Ages and Contemporary time edited by ALBERTA CAMPITELLI and ALESSANDRO CREMONESI

After her last successful work The Vatican Gardens, Alberta Campitelli carries out her lifetime study with the contribution of excellent colleagues. As cradle of the Italian and European garden, Rome will now have its historical atlas of its villas and parks. Dreamlike, unmissable work with an outstanding. 24 x 32.5 cm, 280 colour pp. - 2012

FALL 2012 – MATISSE: GENESIS. LE CIEL DÉCOUPÉ by SYLVIE FORESTIER and MARIE-THERESE PULVENIS DE SELIGNY

The genius of Matisse is not explicable only by his enormous skill with the colours and the line. This volume catches the method of his artistic creation and the aim of his vision of reality. The paper cut-outs will be presented in a size and in a way never approached before. 24 x 32.5 cm, 240 colour pp. - 2012

FALL 2012 – HISTORY OF ROMAN ART: IMPERIAL ART by B. Andreae

From Augustus to Constantine 24 x 32,5 cm., 320 colour pp. – 2012

For further information kindly contact: silvia.vassena@jacabook.it or coeditions@jacabook.it Editoriale Jaca Book Spa Via Frua 11 - I-20141 Milano, Italy Ph.: +39.02.48.56.151 www.jacabook.it

Jaca Book ILLUSTRATED popular science, general public, families at Frankfurt 2012

NOVELTIES ILLUSTRATED 2013

FALL 2012 - ORIGINS OF RELIGIONS by JULIEN RIES

Founder and conceiver of the religious anthropology, in this illustrated volume Ries represents a fascinating topic: when Homo Religiosus is born how he expressed himself in pre-history, when religions first appeared and how the great religions of humankind started. Archeology, pre-history, history of religions and anthropology in a brilliant synthesis. 21.5 x 27 cm, 264 colour pp. - 2012

The Great book on PARROTS. Intelligence in evolution by RENATO MASSA

The parrot is not a repeater, but a maker of linguistic expressions. A fascinating volume based on the animal whose intelligence is the most “advanced” in the class of birds. The frontiers of human peculiarity are shifting forward. 24 x 28 cm., 216 colour pp.- 2013

THE SAINTS. How to recognize Saints and Patron saints in art by GIOIA and NANDO LANZI

150 saints from Anna and Joachim Mary’s parents to Edith Stein. All described through their attributes and main features, as described in art and in popular images. 21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp.- 2013

CONSTANTINE: EMPIRE and RELIGIONS. The Edict of Milano in 313 and its outcomes by M. Guidetti

An adventurous great emperor who built Europe and the century, 300 a.C, seeing the shifting from Late Antiquity to the Middleages. 21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT CHARITY: AN ATLAS by J. M. Laboa

21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

AN ATLAS OF MUSIC IN PRE-HISTORY AND FIRST CIVILIZATIONS edited by VERA MINAZZI

Leading international scholars in Anthropology and Musicology write several contributions for the first survey on the role of music and dance in pre-history and in different archaic cultures, form China to the Mediterranean and the Americas 24 x 31 cm, 280 colour pp. – 2013

JACA BOOK CATALOGUE

AN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC edited by Vera Minazzi, preface by Francesco Alberto Gallo.

The evolution of Music from late antiquity to the end of the 14th century, in relation also to other Arts and to the cultural context. With contributions of 46 international scholars. 24 x 31 cm, 272 colour pp. - 2011

SANTIAGO: HISTORY OF THE WAY OF ST. JAMES by Gioia and Nando Lanzi

A definitive survey on the history and artistic outcomes of the way to Santiago, from the Middle Ages up to now, which changed and shaped a huge territory in Europe, also now walked through its many “routes”. A work of great discoveries, but an unpublished guide as well. 400 colour and b/w images ca. and 5 maps. 24 x 30 cm, 240 colour pp. - 2011

CHAGALL: the action and the Word by PIERRE PROVOYEUR

The complete pastels of the Méssage Biblique from the Archives of the Musée National March Chagall Méssage Biblique, in Nice by the very first director. 24 x 32.5 cm, 240 colour pp. - 2011

ST. PETER’S BASILICA. Symbolic space and Iconography of the mosaics (Monumenta Vaticana Selecta) Contributions by Assunta Di Sante, Antonio Grimaldi, Vittorio Lanzani, Gabriele Mattiacci, Christof Thoenes, Simona Turriziani, Pietro Zander; Preface by Card. Angelo Comastri

An unbeaten profound overview of one of the most renown monument in the world. Once the architecture is read in its extraordinary symbolic form, this work reveals the breathtaking and less known St. Peter: the unveiling of the greatest collection of mosaics in the world and their fascinating and universal message. 24 x 32.5 cm, 352 colour pp. - 2011

THE ORIGINS OF ROMAN ART: from the Kings to the Middle Republic by FILIPPO COARELLI

The "origins of Rome" find significant confirmations in the archaeology of the last decades. The outer contributions and specific artistic features characterize the first centuries of the Republic in a koiné that never loses its file rouge. 24 x 32.5 cm, 256 colour pp. - 2011

SACRED MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD edited by Julien Ries

The unbeaten book about mountains. The mountain with its symbolic meaning and its being a link between man and the sky has always been at the core of the greatest civilizations. It is probably the most universal symbol, the true cosmic axis of the world, but this feature can be only perceived by entering the inner heart of the different cultures. Worldwide specialists describe the most famous sacred mountains of humanity with the aid of marvellous images. 24 x 32.5 cm, 256 colour pp., 220 images ca. - 2010

PEACE! CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND ART FOR PEACE AFTER HIROSHIMA by Corrado Gavinelli, with contributions by Sylvie Forestier

Panikkar claims that our world is without myths, and the only one remaining is Peace. After Hiroshima, great architects and artists have dedicated places and structures to the theme of Peace. Among them, there are masterpieces deeply marking contemporary art, such as the works of Picasso, Chagall, Rothko, Le Corbusier, Ando... 24 x 32.5 cm, 240/260 colour pp., 180 images ca. - 2010

For further information kindly contact: silvia.vassena@jacabook.it or coeditions@jacabook.it Editoriale Jaca Book Spa Via Frua 11 - I-20141 Milano, Italy Ph.: +39.02.48.56.151 www.jacabook.it