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March 30, 2017
CFP: Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican

CFP: Revisiting Raphael’s Vatican

April 23, 2016
The Gallery of Maps , commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the late sixteenth century for the Vatican Palace, once again shows off the topography of Italy in all its brilliant color.

April 14, 2016
Neoclassical architect and designer Giuseppe Valadier was born on this day, April 14, in 1762.

November 29, 2015
On 29 November 800, Charlemagne Arrived in Rome with a Mission to Investigate Corruption Charges Against Pope Leo III (r. 795-816).

November 1, 2015
Giulio Romano Died on All Saints’ Day (1 November) in 1546 in Mantua.

January 27, 2015
Painter Bernardino Nocchi died on 27 January 1812.

October 31, 2014
October 31 marks two important anniversaries for the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

September 3, 2014
A new HVAC system is scheduled to go online at the Sistine Chapel in October 2014.

April 26, 2014
The cleaning of Bernini’s colonnade at Piazza St. Pietro was completed in time for Easter celebrations after almost five and a half years of work and about 14 million euros to pay for it.

November 27, 2013
Recently restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla have stirred the debate about whether women were leaders in the early Christian church.