Inside the Vatican

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veterán photojournalist James L. Stanfield (lejt) photographs one ofthe many ceremonies he witnessed during his months-long coveragefor INSIDE THE VATICAN. A Wisconsin native, o Stanfield worked as a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal before joining the National Geographic staff in 1966. Since then, he has traveled to 95 countries, producing somé 50 stories on subjects as varied as the Byzantine Empire, Mark Twain, rats, and Poland. He has four times been named
Photographer ofthe Year by the White House News Photographers' Association.
Author Bart McDowell, seen above exchanging greetings with Popé John Paul ii, covered topics ranging from Japan to the Aztecs during his 32 years
with National Geographic magaziné. He alsó wrote four National Geographic books—on Gypsies, the Revolutionary War, the American cowboy, and the Soviet Union. A Texan by birth, McDowell lives in Forest Heights, Maryland.
"I was given the rare opportunity to lift the veil of privacy for a privileged... Tovább

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veterán photojournalist James L. Stanfield (lejt) photographs one ofthe many ceremonies he witnessed during his months-long coveragefor INSIDE THE VATICAN. A Wisconsin native, o Stanfield worked as a photographer for the Milwaukee Journal before joining the National Geographic staff in 1966. Since then, he has traveled to 95 countries, producing somé 50 stories on subjects as varied as the Byzantine Empire, Mark Twain, rats, and Poland. He has four times been named
Photographer ofthe Year by the White House News Photographers' Association.
Author Bart McDowell, seen above exchanging greetings with Popé John Paul ii, covered topics ranging from Japan to the Aztecs during his 32 years
with National Geographic magaziné. He alsó wrote four National Geographic books—on Gypsies, the Revolutionary War, the American cowboy, and the Soviet Union. A Texan by birth, McDowell lives in Forest Heights, Maryland.
"I was given the rare opportunity to lift the veil of privacy for a privileged look inside the Vatican," writes photographer James L. Staníield in his foreword to this book.
For nearly a year, seven days a week, Stanfield photographed virtually every cor-ner of the 108.7-acre enclave that is both the world's smallest nation and the center of the world's largest religious body, the Román Catholic Church. Popé John Paul II, the Román Curia, the color and pomp of centuries-old ceremonies, the wondrous art and architecture, the daily lives of ordi-nary citizens—all are part of Stanfield's un-precedented coverage.
Author Bart McDowell guides you through this extraordinary place. He be-gins with a historical perspective, going back to ancient times when the area, known as the Vaticanus, was a marshland infamous for snakes and malaria. In the fourth centu-ry, Emperor Constantine built a great ba-silica there, the first St. Peter's; around it grew a settlement that would become home to the popes and territorial base of the church for most of its succeeding history.
In subsequent chapters, McDowell ex-plains the workings of the Holy See, the church's labyrinthine government. He in-troduces many of the people who make their living in the Vatican. And he takes you into one of the world's great collections of paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and oth-er treasures. In a final chapter he presents the modern popes, particularly the charis-matic John Paul II.
Through beautiful and exclusive pho-tographs and revealing text, INSIDE THE VATICAN celebrates a small, dynamic com-munity unique in the world.
Swiss Guards stand tall in their swearing-in garb of armor and plume. The annual ceremony recalls the 1521 Sack of Romé, when 147 guards died helping Popé Clement VII escape Germán invaders. Vissza