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	Vatican Museums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church.
		This museum is named after Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti, who founded it in the early 1800s.
		The museum consists of a large arched gallery in which sides are exhibited several statues, sarcophaguses and friezes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vatican_Museums (708 words)

	Vatican Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pope Nicholas V established the library in the Vatican in 1448 by combining some 350 Greek, Latin and Hebrew codices inherited from his predecessors with his own collection and extensive acquisitions, among them manuscripts from the imperial library of Constantinople.
		In 1623, the hereditary Palatine Library of Heidelberg containing about 3500 manuscripts was given to the Vatican by Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria in thanks for the adroit political maneuvers of Pope Gregory XV that had sustained him in his contests with Protestant candidates for the electoral seat.
		The Vatican Library is a research library for history, law, philosophy, science and theology, open to anyone who can document their qualifications and their research needs to view the collection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vatican_Library (888 words)

	Vatican Museums
		FThe Etruscan Museum was founded by Gregory XIV in 1837 to house the works coming from the excavations carried out in southern Etruria.
		The special building constructed to house the museum (founded by Gregorius XVI in 1844) runs parallel to the Pinacoteca and was opened in 1970.
		Founded in 1854 by Pius IX in the Lateran Palace to house the Christian antiquities found during the excavations of the catacombs, the Museo Pio Cristiano was transferred to the Vatican in 1963.
	www.roma2000.it /zmusvat.html (1075 words)

	Vatican on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Vatican City is a roughly triangular tract of land within Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber River and west of the Castel Sant'Angelo.
		The principal chapel in the Vatican is the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling of which was painted (1508-12) by Michelangelo.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Vatican.asp (1257 words)

	Catholic World News : Vatican Museums re-open renovated section
		The reinauguration of the Christian Museum was one of the main events planned this year in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums, which were established by Pope Julius II in 1506.
		The Christian Museum was founded in 1756-57 by Pope Benedict XIV to "promote the splendor of Rome and affirm the truth of the Christian religion." The collection features Christian anitiquities unearthed during the excavations of the catacombs during the latter half of the 18th century.
		Francesco Buranelli, the director of the Vatican Museums, explained that the value of the collection, which includes many "minor" objects from the early days of Rome's Christian community, is to provide a sense of a way of life.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=43012 (387 words)

	The Antiquities of the Vatican Museums
		Vatican City grew up around where tradition says Peter the Apostle was buried after being crucified upside down (not deeming himself worthy to die in the same manner as Jesus Christ).
		Peter's Basilica in Vatican City was constructed over his grave, which is walking distance from the museums of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel.
		Museum of Popes Clement XIV and Pius VI: Greek and Roman sculptures, such as the Apollo Belvedere, Laocoön, and the statue of Hermes.
	www.go-star.com /antiquing/vatican.htm (1613 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vatican Museums plan major exhibits, visits to new necropolis, for 500th anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is planning a series of exhibits, conferences and guided visits to a newly discovered necropolis to mark the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums, one of the oldest and most famous museums in the world.
		And a conference of major museum directors from around the world is scheduled for December on the role of museums in history and today.
		Museum crowds are a perennial problem, though, and even with a new entrance hall and an entrance rate Buranelli said could average about 39 visitors a minute, hours-long lines snake around the walls of Vatican City during peak tourist season.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/destinations/2006-02-15-vatican-museum_x.htm (597 words)

	Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) & the Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Rome \| ...
		Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) & the Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina)
		Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) & the Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina)
		Some members of the Vatican staff once discovered Michelangelo in front of the Belvedere Apollo "publicly aroused in defilement." He was caned and shamed accordingly and had to promise to "create something grand" to compensate for his "shocking" behavior.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/rome/A20644.html (2124 words)

	VRMAG - VATICAN MUSEUMS IN VIRTUAL REALITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the features expected to be popular is a virtual tour of the Vatican museums - especially useful for those daunted by hours of queuing and endless walking required to see the real-life museum's 10 km of galleries.
		Vatican officials expect the new website will also help tourists get the most out of a physical visit to the museums by enabling them to plan an itinerary through its labyrinthine corridors before physically visiting the premises, and is also considering online ticket sales.
		The Vatican Museums originated as a group of sculptures collected by Pope Julius II (1503-1513) and was continued by succeeding popes who opened the art collections to the public in order to promote knowledge of art history and culture.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue14/VATICAN_MUSEUMS_IN_VIRTUAL_REALITY.html (645 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
		The Vatican works of art represent in their entirety an irreplaceable treasure, which is not actively at the disposal of the Curia, but passively in their possession, since the repair and maintenance of these objects make great claims on the resources of the Holy See.
		The Vatican museums are: (1) The Museo Pio-Clementino; (2) the Galleria Chiaramonti; (3) the Braccio Nuovo; (4) the Egyptian Museum; (5) the Etruscan Museum.
		The Vatican dispensary, which was formerly in the Cortile di San Damaso, was recently transferred to the quarters of the Swiss Guards, and lies at the door of the Torrione di Nicolò V which leads to the city.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15276b.htm (16595 words)

	Catholic World News : Vatican Museums unveil 500th-anniversary celebrations
		Francesco Buranelli, the director of the Museums, reports that officials are considering various possible measures to alleviate the inconvenience caused by long lines-- or at least to give those who are waiting some protection from the weather.
		The enormous collection of the Vatican Museums are crowded into a relatively small area, located against the ancient walls of the Vatican, abutting a section of Rome where traffic is already heavy.
		The Vatican Museums draw crowds comparable to those visiting the Louvre or the Metropolitan Museum in New York, he says; yet only 400 people serve on the staff of the Vatican institution, as compared with 1,500 at those institutions.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=42413 (753 words)

	The Vatican and Environs
		Vatican City is a sovereign country in and of itself, is the smallest nation in the world, and encompasses some 108 acres (about 440,000 square meters) and is completely surrounded by Rome.
		Museums of Popes Clement XIV and Pius VI (Museo Pio-Clementino).
		It is the parish of the Vatican City and was begun in 1572 by Vignola for the Congregation of the Footmen of the Papal Court (which no longer exist), during the reign of Pius V. It was assigned to the Agostinian Fathers.
	www.stuardtclarkesrome.com /vatican.htm (7585 words)

	Vatican Museums trace origin to marble sculpture bought 500 years ago \| The-Tidings.com
		Although they have thousands of objects on display and even more in storage, the Vatican Museums trace their origin to one marble sculpture, purchased 500 years ago.
		Each year the Vatican Museums allow 4 million people from every nation and faith to admire the work of human genius, much of it produced in praise of God, he said.
		Cardinal Szoka was to celebrate a special Mass for the museums' employees Feb. 17 in the Sistine Chapel, the centerpiece of most people's visit to the museums.
	www.the-tidings.com /2006/0217/museum.htm (633 words)

	Tour of Italy - The Vatican Museums Starting Page
		Originally, the official residence of the bishops of Rome was not the Vatican, but the Lateran Palace, which once belonged to the Roman family of the Laterans, and was donated to the Roman Church.
		The Vatican City State is recognized by the international community as a legal sovereign body, and it is a member of various international organizations (Universal Postal Union, International Telecommunications Union, International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works).
		Admission to the Museums was 12,000 lire (app..
	touritaly.org /tours/vaticanmuseum/Vatican01.htm (763 words)

	The Vatican Museum
		The decoration of the palace and of the adjacent Sistine Chapel constitutes a unique ensemble of the pictorial art of the Renaissance, from the time of that cultural movement's origin until its full maturity in the second half of the 16th century.
		The first actual museums, devoted to classical Greco-Roman statuary, the fruit of archeological excavations, in Rome and Latium, were founded by the popes of the 18th and 19th centuries.
		The Museum was later enlarged (1776 - 86) by Pius VI with the construction of new buildings inspired by the architecture of imperial Rome.
	www.pellegrinocattolico.com /ctv/museo.htm (566 words)

	Vatican Museums Quick Tour! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		he masterpieces in the Vatican are exhibited and glorified by the grandeur of the architectural settings in the buildings that they reside in.
		Because of the quality of these works and the settings in which they are preserved, these architectural works remain important today since they contribute historical and artistic importance to the heritage of the world.
		This panel was cut in half and later put together after they were located in the 1800's where the first half was found at a home that was using the panel as a lid for a box and the second panel was located at a shoemakers home.
	users2.ev1.net /~stegturn/vatican.htm (292 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		VATICAN CITY, FEB. 14, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican presented initiatives planned for the fifth centenary of the Vatican Museums, one of the world's most important art galleries.
		The first of these is the Pio Christian Museum, founded by Pope Benedict XIV between 1756 and 1757 to house the various objects acquired by the Vatican during the first half of the 18th century, and "to promote the splendor of Rome and affirm the truth of the Christian religion."
		The museum, which opened to the public 10 years later under the pontificate of Paul VI, presents the cultures and religious practices of non-European countries, and their contacts with Christianity.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=84490 (568 words)

	Musei Vaticani
		The founding of the Vatican Museums can be traced back to 1503 when the newly-elected Pope, Julius II della Rovere, placed a statue of Apollo in the internal courtyard of the Belvedere Palace built by Innocent VIII; he brought the statue from the garden of his titular church of St. Peter in Chains.
		The Christian Museum, comprising finds from the catacombs that could not be conserved in situ, was founded by Pius IX in 1854 in the Lateran Palace and was moved to the Vatican Museums by Pope John XXIII.
		Pope Pius XI inaugurated in 1932 the definitive seat of the Vatican Picture Gallery (the Pinacoteca), near the monumental entrance of the Vatican Museums.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/vaticano/0-Musei.html (472 words)

	Janson Media: The Vatican Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On the Vatican Hill of Rome one can find a chronicle of the history of man. It is a system of buildings, Museums, monuments and irreplaceable works of art telling of the great adventure of human civilization.
		This volume explains how the Museums were organized in the ancient Vatican Palaces at the very time when a plethora of projects and works had been entrusted to great architects such as Bramante and Michelangelo for a wide-ranging reorganization of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Palaces.
		We watched the sixth volume, "The Ethnological Museum and The Picture Gallery", which featured a host of well-known (and lesser known) artworks chronicling, in essence, the pictorial history of Christianity, as well as a fascinating overview of religion in non-European cultures (examining death rites, conceptions of deities, and worship habits).
	www.janson.com /videos/vatican/vol1.html (1030 words)

	ITALIA - The Saint Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Museums
		The Vatican Grottoes, underneath the Basilica, form an interesting monumental complex, containing 2,000 years of historical, civil and Christian memories.
		These museums contain the most recent sections where the collections of the former Lateran Museums are arranged.
		The museum displays a splendid collection of Greek and Roman sculptures; among them, some of the best-known statues in the world: the "Apollo Belvedere", "Hermes", the famous group "Laocoon" (late-Hellenic work by sculptors from Rhodes).
	www.italiantourism.com /vatican.html (1233 words)

	Catholic News Service - Vatican
		The masterpieces and thousands of artifacts on display at the Vatican Museums represent the church's unwavering faith in the beauty of God, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of the museums' benefactors.
		While Vatican officials have expressed concern about the lack of religious freedom in some countries, they are also concerned about how some religious groups abuse liberties by evangelizing in aggressive or deceptive ways.
		The Vatican observed the 25th anniversary of the shooting of Pope John Paul II with a Marian pilgrimage and the laying of a marble marker at the place he was shot.
	www.catholicnews.com /data/vatican/vatican.htm (3936 words)

	Vatican City and the Vatican Museums Rome, Italy
		Visitors to the Vatican museums can follow one of four itineraries (A, B, C or D) according to the time they have at their disposal and their special interest.
		All the works chosen for the museum were judged on the bases of their "spiritual and religious values," but religious groups outside the Vatican are represented as well.
		Separating the Vatican from the secular world on the north and west are fifty-eight acres of lush, carefully tended gardens filled with winding paths, brilliantly colored flowers, groves of massive oaks, and ancient fountains and pools.
	www.italy-weekly-rentals.com /webpages/ACCESSORI/ROME/VATICAN.htm (2848 words)

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		The sole entrance to the Museums, on Viale del Vaticano, is a 15 minutes walk around the Vatican wall from St. Peter's, or take a shuttle bus departing from (and returning to) the orange sign on the left side of St. Peter's Square (see: Vital Data).
		In fact, your last stop in the Museums is likely to be the Sistine Chapel, from which stairs descend directly to the entrance to St. Peter's.
		Converting the Vatican from a Medieval to a Renaissance Palace, he commissioned the great artists of the day including Botticelli, Perugino and Ghirlandaio to fresco the sidewalls, Raphael later created tapestries that are sometimes hung at the base of these walls.
	web.tiscali.it /romaonlineguide/Pages/eng/rcristiana/sCM2y6.htm (894 words)

	The Vatican Museums - Cultural Travels Museum of the Month
		The museums, housed primarily in the former papal apartments of the medieval Apostolic Palace, cover the Renaissance from its late 14
		But even the Vatican’s museums play second fiddle to the great edifice that dominates Vatican City: the magnificent basilica of St. Peter’s, the largest church in Christendom, and beneficiary of some of Michelangelo and Bernini’s greatest works.
		Bernini’s great twin colonnades of robust, piazza-forming, Tuscan-order pillars, which seem to stretch in an immense embrace from the basilica, were for years the ceremonial entrance to the Vatican for diplomatic travelers.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Museums/Archives/Vatican.htm (455 words)

	Museum Tickets for Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums Tour-Rome - Vatican (Italy)
		Breathtaking and awe-inspiring, a visit to the Vatican Museums is sure to be one of the most memorable experiences of your Roman holiday.
		The Vatican Museums tour route is not handicap accessible, but can be altered with advance notice.
		If you do not have your printed Select Italy voucher with official Vatican reservation number, you will not be allowed on the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museums Tour and you must wait in the general ticket purchase line.
	selectitaly.com /museums.php?product_id=38&city_id=124 (785 words)

	Vatican. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Since the so-called Roman Question was ended by the Lateran Treaty of 1929 between Pope Pius XI and King Victor Emmanuel III (negotiated by Cardinal Gasparri and Mussolini), the Vatican City has been an independent state (108.7 acres/44 hectares), with the pope as its absolute ruler.
		The papal court long had all the characteristics of a royal court, such as elaborate rituals and uniforms, and complex rules of precedence; however, since the reign of Pope John XXIII (1958–63) and the Second Vatican Council, many of the Vatican ceremonies have been greatly simplified.
		The principal chapel in the Vatican is the Sistine Chapel, the ceiling of which was painted (1508–12) by Michelangelo.
	www.bartleby.com /65/va/Vatican.html (1108 words)

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