posted on 2017-07-03, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
Rome, Italy - Vatican Palace\u000a\u000aPope Julius II established the Belvedere sculpture garden behind the Vatican Palace. The Museo Pio Clementino was constructed by Michelangelo Simonetti, to take the Belvedere sculptures into a new display and to make room for the frantic new collecting of antiquities on which the papacy embarked, which soon required the additional accommodation of the Galleria dei Candelabri. Once the papacy was committed to centralized conservation, the collections rapidly expanded in the form of different museums on the Vatican site. Between 1807 and 1810 Canova directed the establishment of the Museo Chiaramonti, to display both pagan and Christian Antique sculpture; and by 1822 a large new gallery, the Braccio Nuovo, was required. [Some galleries are within the Palace, others are external buildings.]
History
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-07-03
Spatial Coverage
+41.906389+12.454444|Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy: Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican Palace and other buildings, Viale Vaticano|Vatican City
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
['Renaissance', 'Nineteenth century']
Rights Statement
To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.