HOME Profane and Pinacoteca Museums Ancient Rome Renaissance Rome Modern Rome Vatican City and Museums Venice Top of this Page First Image Places Things ABOUT CONTACT

www.mgaylard.co.uk

Vatican Profane and Pinacoteca Museums

Vatican Profane and Pinacoteca Museums

Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum - Statue of Sophocles
Gregorian Profane Museum - Medea and the daughters of Pelias
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum - Heracles
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum - The Nativity and Epiphany
Gregorian Profane Museum - Episode from the Story Of Daniel
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum
Gregorian Profane Museum

The Gregoriano Profano

The Gregoriano Profano Museum was founded in the Lateran Apostolic Palace at the behest of Gregory XVI Cappellari on 16 May 1844. The findings of the pontifical archaeological excavations of the previous decades in Rome and in nearby areas (Cerveteri, Veio, Ostia) were exhibited there, along with many other antiquities that had until then been packed into the sculpture storage deposits. During the 1960s all the collections previously held in the Lateran Palace were transferred to the Vatican, where in June 1970 the new wing was inaugurated. The architectural project, strongly encouraged by Pope Paul VI, was entrusted to the practice of Vincenzo, Fausto and Lucio Passarelli. The building is notable for its use of natural light, which is diffused through large windows and skylights, and maximised byo the absence of distinct divisions within the space. Indeed, the partitions between the display zones are frequently made of metal grills, upon which which many of the materials are secured, also providing extreme flexibility in terms of layout, which tends to be based on the origins of the exhibits.

www.museivaticani.va

Pinacoteca

Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
Vatican Pinacoteca
link to flickr photography album

AVatican Pinacoteca

The new Vatican Pinacoteca (Art Italy) was inaugurated on 27 October 1932 in the building especially constructed by the architect Luca Beltrami for Pius XI. It was built in the nineteenth century Square Garden, isolated and completely surrounded by avenues, in a place considered suitable for assuring the best lighting conditions for both the correct preservation of the works and their optimum aesthetic enhancement. Thus the age-old question of the exhibition of the paintings, which were constantly moved around the Apostolic Palaces due to the lack of a setting that matched their importance, was solved. A first collection of only 118 precious paintings was created by Pope Pius VI around 1790. It was of short duration due to the fact that, following the Treaty of Tolentino (1797) some of the greatest masterpieces were transferred to Paris. The idea of an art Italy, understood in the modern sense as an exhibition open to the public, was only born in 1817 after the fall of Napoleon and the consequent return to the Church State of a large part of the works belonging to it, according to the directions of the Congress of Vienna. The collection continued to grow over the years through donations and purchases until it reached the current nucleus of 460 paintings, distributed among the eighteen rooms on the basis of chronology and school, from the so-called Primitives (12th - 13th century) to the 19th century. The collection contains some masterpieces of the greatest artists of the history of Italian painting, from Giotto to Fra Angelico, from Melozzo da Forlì to Perugino and to Raphael, from Leonardo to Tiziano, to Veronese, to Caravaggio and to Crespi.

www.museivaticani.va
To the top
Powered by w3.css. The images are all stored on link to www.gaylard.co.uk Photostream on Flickr  This website is hosted by link to 123Reg Web Hosting