vatican museums collezione arte religiosa moderna

One of the most recent art collections of the Vatican Museums, the Collection of Modern Religious Art was inaugurated in 1973 by Pope Paul VI that he intended to document and promote the religious sentiment present in contemporary art. The collection, largely formed through private donations or the artists themselves, is housed in the Borgia, on the first floor of the Pontifical Palace, in some rooms on the ground floor and underlying lounges to the Sistine Chapel. In total it is a good 55 rooms and approximately 800 works created between the nineteenth and twenty-first century. Are in your collection almost 250 international artists including Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso. The Collection of Modern Religious Art hosts not only paintings but also contemporary sculptures in bronze, glass and ceramics.

Read Also

vatican museums collezione arte religiosa moderna
vatican museums galleria delle carte geografiche
vatican museums musei della biblioteca apostolica vaticana
vatican museums museo chiaromenti
vatican museums museo filatelico
vatican museums museo gregoriano egizio
vatican museums museo gregoriano etrusco
vatican museums museo gregoriano profano
vatican museums museo missionario
vatican museums museo pio clementino
vatican museums museo pio cristiano
vatican museums padiglione delle carrozze
vatican museums pinacoteca vaticana

Buy now Tickets

Discover Rome Art!