Castel Sant'Angelo: the history, the architecture, the artworks exhibited there today.
English edition.
A handy guide organized in monographic chapters, with beautiful illustrations, to one of the most unique monuments of ancient Rome. Built in 123 AD as a monumental tomb for the Emperor Hadrian, in the Middle Ages the complex was transformed into a fortress, and then made less forbidding in the Renaissance, with the addition of the loggias of Julius II and Paul III. Today it contains an art museum: sculptures by Raffaello da Montelupo, Pietro Bracci and Andrea Pozzo, decorations by students of Raphael, including Perino del Vaga, paintings by Carlo Crivelli, Luca Signorelli, Dosso Dossi and Lorenzo Lotto.