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The Vatican Museums are found in Vatican Avenue in the Vatican City, they include ten different museums. |
The origins of the Vatican Museums remount to the Pope Julius II, lover of the ancient sculpture and the contemporary art, after having been named Pope in 1503 he put different works in the gardens of the Belvedere allowing to artists and to studious to admire them. It was just in the 700’s when other footsteps were made to the creation of a museum destined to host the vast harvest of ancient and modern works of art, received in gift or purchased by the various popes. |
The decisive push came from Clement XIV and Pius VI: the Pius-Clementine Museum, born by the amplification of Vatican Palace from them wanted, that hosts the classical sculpture it still the heart of the Vatican Museums. |
A new section was added from Pius VII Chiaramonti, that gave it his name, that still maintains (Chiaramonti Museum). Prepared by Canova, and dedicated to Greek-Romans sculptures (Corridoio e Braccio Nuovo) it hosts, in the Lapidary Gallery over 5000 registrations. |
The last museum added to the complex, inaugurated in 1973, it’s dedicated to the modern religious art and it includes works of eminent artists of the nine hundred. |
Vatican Museums now included ten different museums, the visitors also have access to the rooms of the Vatican Library and to other rooms decorated with Renaissance frescos, the rooms painted by Rafael and, naturally, the Sistine Chapel. |
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