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Chapters: Flag of the Vatican City, Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel Choir, Pontifical Anthem, Crime in Vatican City, Gone With the Wind in the Vatican, Culture of Vatican City, Music of Vatican City, Marcia Trionfale, the Gallery of Maps, Vicar General for the Vatican City State, Coat of Arms of Vatican City. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Vatican Museums (Italian: ), in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City, are among the greatest museums in the world, since they display works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. They were visited by 4,310,083 people in the year 2007. Staircase of the Vatican MuseumsThe Vatican Museums trace their origin to one marble sculpture, purchased 500 years ago. The sculpture of Laocoön, the priest who, according to Greek mythology, tried to convince the people of ancient Troy not to accept the Greeks' "gift" of a hollow horse, was discovered 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their recommendation, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. The pope put the sculpture of Laocoön and his sons in the grips of a sea serpent on public display at the Vatican exactly one month after its discovery. The Museums celebrated their 500th anniversary in October 2006 by permanently opening the excavations of a Vatican Hill necropolis to the public. The collection was first housed in th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=229765 ... Read more

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Title: Notes from the magic kingdom.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Vatican City)
Author: Richard John Neuhaus
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 175Page: 68(3)

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This work traces the history of Western art and of the Catholic Church through a remarkable selection of 200 works from the Vatican's collection. The works are to be used in a travelling exhibition, starting in the Colorado History Museum in 1993 and concluding in Rome in the year 2000. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 400 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more