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Saint Peter's PietàIn memory of 21 May 1972
Study Day
On 21 May 1972 Michelangelo's Pietà was disfigured as the result of a deranged attack. Over 40 years later, on 21 May 2013, to commemorate that ill-omened day, the Vatican Museums and the Fabric of Saint Peter will hold a study day to retrace the history of the extraordinary and pioneering restoration works subsequently carried out on Michelangelo's marble masterpiece.
Registration: convegnopieta.musei@scv.va
Register for free admission.
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EtruscanningProject presentation
The renowned Etruscan tomb, Regolini-Galassi, reconstructed in 3D and reunited virtually with the grave goods conserved in the Vatican Museums' Gregorian Etruscan Museum. On 4 April at 10.00 there will be the presentation of the European "Etruscanning" project and the opening of the virtual reality installation created by CNR ITABC. Innovative digital technology meets art and education!
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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General guide to the Vatican City
Book presentation
The first and so far only "General guide to the Vatican City" has been published; it is the fruit of a collaborative project between three important publishing houses, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Edizioni Musei Vaticani and Editoriale Jaca Book. This slim but valuable volume, edited by over 30 specialists and available in six languages, will be presented on Thursday 14 February at 11 am in the Vatican Museums. The authors and editors will attend the presentation.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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Herity 2012
How the cultural heritage is communicated?
4th International Conference
On 5, 6 and 7 December 2012 the Vatican Museums will host the fourth edition of the international meeting on Cultural Heritage, organised by HERITY Itallia for six years now, with the involvement of scholars, decision makers, students and citizens from over 30 countries. Organised in partnership with UNESCO, UN-WTO and ICCROM, this year the conference will have the title of "How the cultural heritage is communicated?", and will aim to evaluate the quality of the transmission of the cultural message by means of a comparative analysis of the various means of communication, strategies and results achieved.
Register for admission within November 30th 2012.
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Ethnos
Vatican Museums Ethnological Collection
Catalogue Presentation
Ethnos is the evocative title of the first general catalogue dedicated to the vast and complex Ethnological Collections of the Vatican Museums.
The new text to be published by Edizioni Musei Vaticani is enriched with an extensive iconographical guide, and presents as the true protagonists of the collections not the objects themselves, but rather the peoples of whom these works are an authentic cultural expression.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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Monuments at war
1939 - 1945 London Paris Rome BerlinInternational Conference
The Conference, organised by the Vatican Museums, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and the Association ANISA, and curated by Micol Forti and Teresa Calvano, compares the events that during the Second World War involved the museum collections and monumental heritage of the principal European capitals. The Conference will compare the situations, institutions and responses adopted by the various countries for the protection of their historic centres and for safeguarding their works of art.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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Ceramica greca a figure nere di produzione non attica
La collezione Astarita nel Museo Gregoriano EtruscoBook Presentation
Ten years after the first publication on the Astarita Collection of the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, a new book in the series of Ancient Painted Vases of the Vatican (Edizioni Musei Vaticani) is to be published; by the same author, Mario Iozzo, it is dedicated to Greek black figure ceramics of non-Attic production. This new publication will be presented at 16.00 on 6 November at the Vatican Museums.
Free admission on presentation of the invitation.
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Perle del Concilio
dal tesoro del Vaticano II
Book presentation
Two hundred authoritative figures, from both within the ecclesiastical world and outside, offer brief commentaries on 365 quotations from the documents of the Second Vatican Council. This is the new book, "PERLE DEL CONCILIO – dal tesoro del Vaticano II" (PEARLS FROM THE COUNCIL - from the treasure of Vatican II), edited by the theologian Marco Vergottini and published by Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna. It will be introduced in Rome at the Vatican Museums, on Tuesday 9 October, with presentations by Cardinals G. Ravasi and A. Scola, and the Archbishop B. Forte.
Entrance upon invitation.
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Sharing Conservation II
Earth. Ethnographic Heritage. Knowing Earth, Conserving Cultural Identities, Sharing Responsibility for Heritage
Workshop
On 4 and 5 October 2012, the Polymaterial Laboratory of the Vatican Museums revisits Sharing Conservation, presenting a second edition dedicated to the material Earth and its characteristics in the ethnographical collections. The two day workshop will constitute a valuable occasion for the comparison of different approaches to conservation at an international level, within the aim of promoting Sustainable Conservation and Restoration.
Register for free admission.
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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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