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A World-Famous Ancient Collection, on Display for the First Time, Awaits Visitors in Rome

by Sarah E. Bond January 25, 2021August 4, 2021

The impressive exhibition undertaken by the Capitoline Museums and the Torlonia Foundation was 40 years in the making, and placed close to 100 marble sculptures from the storied Torlonia collection on view.

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The Layers of History Behind Raphael’s Tapestries at the Sistine Chapel

by Anthony Majanlahti February 25, 2020February 26, 2020

Standing in the chapel last week, I had the feeling that I was seeing something I would never see again: the Sistine Chapel not just as a complete work of art, but as a complete cultural artifact, restored to its Renaissance appearance for a fleeting moment.

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God Loves Versace in Met Museum’s Fashion and Catholicism Exhibit

by Alexander Cavaluzzo July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.

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Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the ‘Aeneid’

by Carey Dunne July 13, 2016July 14, 2016

In Rome, around the year 400, a scribe and three painters created an illuminated manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, illustrating the the ancient hero Aeneas’ journey from Troy to Italy.

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