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| | Vatican City - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The Renaissance popes, principally Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII, were great patrons of the arts, and it was they who began to assemble the great collections and to construct the wonderful galleries. |
 | | Gregory XIII and Sixtus V spent huge sums on the Vatican and also began the Quirinal, a palace that served as the papal residence from the 17th to the 19th cent., was the Italian royal palace from 1870 to 1946, and is now the home of the president of Italy. |
 | | See M. Bonney, The Vatican (photographs with explanations, 1940); K. Isper, Vatican Art (1953); R. Neville, The World of the Vatican (1962); P. Letarouilly, Vatican (2 vol., 1954-64); A. Lipinsky, The Vatican (tr. |
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