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ETRUSCANS
The heroic ideal and the shining vine
Exhibition Presentation
On Thursday 8 March there will be a Vatican preview at the Pope's Museums of the large and exhaustive exhibition on Etruscan Civilization that the Palazzo Mazzetti in Asti will host from the 17 March on. Curated by Alessandro Mandolesi of the University of Turin and by Maurizio Sannibale, Head of the Department of Etrusco-Italic Antiquities in the Vatican Museums, the exhibition will showcase 343 artefacts, many of them unpublished, from the Pontifical Collections and from Italy's leading museums.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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VERBUM DOMINI
the Word of the Lord
Exhibition
To mark the 400th anniversary of the "King James Bible", the exhibition VERBUM DOMINI, the Word of the Lord, will be inaugurated in the exhibition spaces of the Vatican's Charlemagne Wing on 1st March. Held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council of Culture, the exhibition will aim to make the history of Holy Scripture more accessible to the general public by presenting a rich and rare collection of biblical texts and documents from The Green Collection.
Free admission to the exhibition.
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Giorgio Torraca
Culture and creativity in conservation
Conference
The Vatican Museums are among the promoters of the conference being held in the Vatican on 3 February 2012 and dedicated to the complex figure of Giorgio Torraca, leading scientist in the field of restoration, who died in September 2010.
Register for free admission.
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Religion, Nature and Art
Conference
The Conference on the 13 and 14 October 2011, sponsored and jointly organized by the Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums and by the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, is dedicated to the relationship between Religion, Nature and Art.
The two days of meetings will focus on the attention of the Catholic world on nature, emphasizing how an ecological awareness is present, through art, also in other cultures and religions.
Entrance upon invitation.
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Sharing Conservation
Several approaches to the conservation of art made with different materials
Study Day
The Vatican Museums are promoting an international study day, Sharing Conservation, on interdisciplinary collaboration in the conservation of works of art made of several materials, based on up-to-date collaborative approaches. The Study Day is scheduled for 4 October 2011 by prior registration.
Register for free admission.
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Man, the Face, the Mystery. Masterpieces from the Vatican Museums
Exhibition Presentation
The latest exhibition displaying fifty works of art deriving from the Pontifical Galleries stems from the collaboration between the Vatican Museums and the Republic of San Marino. This exhibition documents the way in which artists, ancient and modern, have represented human features in their research to reflect, especially through facial characteristics, the soul. The exhibition will be presented by the curators: Antonio Paolucci and Giovanni Gentili, 14 July 2011.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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The rediscovery of a Correggio
The Vatican Correggio from the Triptyque of Santa Maria della MisericordiaPress Conference
The Vatican Pinacoteca rediscovers a Correggio thanks to research and studies undertaken by the Il Correggio Foundation together with the Diagnostic Laboratory for Conservation and Restoration of the Vatican Museums. Presentation on 27 June 2011 of the steps taken to attribute the painting of Christ the Redeemer that legitimised the signature of the painter.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the MadonnaExhibition Presentation
Presentation in the Vatican of the exhibition "Heavenly Splendour. Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna". The Curartors, Arnold Nesselrath and Andreas Henning, present this exceptional event which sees the two masterpieces by Raphael finally reunited in the Dresden Pinacoteca: the Sistine Madonna and the Madonna of Foligno, which to commemorate the official visit of the Holy Father to Germany, will leave the Vatican Museums for the first time.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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TAMO. Tutta l'Avventura del MosaicoPress Conference
The exhibition TAMO. Tutta l'Avventura del Mosaico, inaugurated last May in the San Nicolò Complex in Ravenna, reaches the Vatican Museums, for a special presentation Beyond the Tiber. Appointment Tuesday 14 June at 11.30 am, in the Sala Conferenze - Vatican Museums.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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The genius of Lorenzo Lotto presented by Antonio Paolucci
Narrated by the Director of the Vatican Museums, and through images of the film director, Luca Criscenti, on Tuesday 31 May 2011 at 16.00 hours, in the Conference Hall of the Museums, the visitor is guided into the secrets of paintings by a renowned artist, among the constellation of the great of sixteenth century Italian art.
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