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Pope Francis Hosts Contemporary Artists at the Vatican

The pope embraced art that questions traditional narratives, a marked shift from his condemnation of León Ferrari’s “blasphemous” sculpture decades ago.

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Struck by Lightning, Ancient Hercules Is Reborn

Scaffolding in a niche of the Vatican Museums' Round Hall conceals from view the work of restorers who are removing centuries of grime from the largest known bronze statue...

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Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

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News Briefing: Church in the World

News Briefing: Church in the World

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Vatican Museums aid conservation efforts of toppled temple in Luxor

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the body of a woman and the head of a lioness, the ancient goddess Sekhmet was the protector of pharaohs, the patroness of physicians and the commander of diseases and plagues: able to cast them or cure them at will.

Countless carvings of her image were created in ancient Egypt as an idol for worship to try to appease her wrath, receive strength and ensure her protection on earth and in the afterlife.

That is what King Amenhotep III -- a 14th-century B.C. pharaoh and

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Vatican Museums aid temple conservation efforts in Luxor

Its curator Alessia Amenta spearheaded the 'Sekhmet Project' gathering data about hundreds of statues of the ancient goddess

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Gianluigi Colalucci, Who Showed Michelangelo's True Colors, Dies at 92


Gianluigi Colalucci, Who Showed Michelangelo’s True Colors, Dies at 92
The chief restorer of the Vatican Museums, he led the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel, a 14-year effort that revealed a new vision of Michelangelo’s complex work.
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Gianluigi Colalucci in 1986 working on the cleaning of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. His work “changed art history,” one expert said.Credit...Gianni Giansanti/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images
Gianluigi Colalucci, who led what was known as the restoration of the century — the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel — and in so doing revealed a new vision of Michelangelo’s storied, complex work there, died on March 28 in Rome. He was 92.

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Vatican City's Necropolis Shows How Roman Non-Elites Lived and Died


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Sorting through the organized chaos of the ancient city of the dead, archaeologists have unearthed well-preserved individual and family tombs that contain highly realistic  funerary portraits , intricately sculpted  sarcophagi bearing the names of the dear departed, inscribed stelae revealing details about their lives, and personal artifacts and burial objects left in remembrance by visiting loved ones.
 “The necropolis of Santa Rosa is one of the best-preserved burial sites of the Roman world and contains a treasure trove of the life of the  ancient Romans ,” Leonardo Di Blasi, who manages the necropolis site for the Vatican Museums’ Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities,  told the Jerusalem Post .

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