Papal prints. (L.A. Stories).Vedo is Italian for "I see" and the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. company behind new e-commerce Web site Vedo.com is betting that lots of people will be interested in seeing artworks from the Vatican Library grace the walls of their home. Under a new licensing agreement with the Vatican, Vedo's parent company, Circa Publishing, has acquired rights to sell prints of more than 1 million works from the library, including illustrated manuscripts, sculpture, maps and engravings. Vedo also offers prints from the New York Botanical Garden For the botanical garden in Queens, see . The New York Botanical Garden is a prestigious botanical garden in New York City. One of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, it spans some 240 acres of Bronx Park in the borough of The Bronx and is home to some of the art collection and Circa does high-end reproduction work for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. and the Museum of Modern Art in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The Vatican prints, which come in open and limited editions, range from $50 to more than $2,000. According to Adam Gross, Vedo's editor in chief, there's a two-and-a-half year waiting list just to get into the Vatican Library, and most of the works have never been reproduced. "You won't see this on the Vatican tour. Our biggest challenge is just getting our arms around the behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. ," Gross said. |
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