The Vatican Museums reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. The museums were founded in the 18th century by Pope Pius VI.

Works in the Vatican Museums

• several paintings by Caravaggio
• Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of Saint Jerome
• works by painters Fra Angelico, Giotto, Nicolas Poussin, and Titian
• the sculpture Laocoon and his Sons by Agesander
• the red marble papal throne, formerly in the basilica of St. John Lateran

External links

• Vatican Museums' website
• Details of collection (at christusrex.org)

This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This is the "Vatican Museums" reference article from the English Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. See also our Disclaimer.