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'Mantegna of Pompei' on show at Vatican Museums
A Deposition of Christ whose recent restoration has enabled a definite attribution to Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna will go on show at the Vatican Museums for three months from March 20 before ...
Medieval Rome's 'Catacomb Saints' were posthumously excavated, bejeweled and sent across Europe
The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.
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Did Michelangelo Pull Off Art History’s Greatest Hoax With ‘Laocoön’?
The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...
An Italian cultural ambassador's guide to Rome
Alberto Angela has made a career out of exploring his hometown. Here are his favourite spots to unearth Rome's millennia of secrets, from the Vatican Museums to Ostia Antica.
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How We Visited The Vatican Museums The Best + Worst Ways
Right or wrong, best or worst. They’re opinions, subjective and open to interpretation. One person’s right might be someone ...
The Catholic Register14d
Vatican unveils 'lost' Renaissance painting of the deposition of Christ
Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, said in the Vatican's press release that the restorations "revealed ...
The Globe and Mail21d
How a Vatican art restorer taught me how to approach and appreciate my age
The irony of being in Rome, the eternal city ... of restoration rooms below the Vatican Museum. Our guide was a senior member of the Vatican’s art restoration team, the mother of Marty ...