MUSEI DELLA BIBLIOTECA VATICANA
Room of the messages to Pius IX
1877, the messages for presents received by Pius IX (1846/78) used to be kept here
Byzantine
liturgical vestments and fabrics
“Frontal of
altar and elements in silk and golden silver threads” from the mass vestments
of Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592/1605) woven as tapestries by Guasparri di Bartolomeo Papini of the Florentine Grand
Ducal Manufactures from cartoons of the years 1593/97 by Alessandro Allori aka Bronzino (1533/1607) a pupil of
Agnolo di Cosimo aka Bronzino
Chapel of St. Pius V
For St. Pius V Ghislieri(1566/72)
Frescoes “Stories of St. Peter Martyr” 1570 by Jacopo
Zucchi (about 1542/96) designed by his master Giorgio
Vasari (1511/74)
Objects of the treasury of the Sancta Sanctorum of the
Lateran
dating from the fourth to the eleventh century
Room of the Messages
It used to keep the messages for presents received by Leo XIII Pecci (1878/1903) and St. Pius X Sarto (1903/14)
Early
Christian and Roman glass and enamels, ivories and metals from Medieval to
Modern times:
“Glass” of
the fourth century with scale-like marine animals from Cologne
“Disk” with
the oldest depiction of Sts. Peter and Paul
“Enamels of
Limoges” with stories of Christ from the old Basilica of St. Peter
“Diptych from Rambona” tenth century, from the Abbey of
St. Mary Rambona in the province of Macerata in the Marche region
The name
comes from the altar of the Bona Dea, which was replaced at the end of the
ninth century with the Abbey
“Ivory pyx”
from Milan, sixth century
Room of the Aldobrandini Wedding
Designed by
Flaminio Ponzio (1560/1613) for Paul V Borghese
(1605/21)
On the
ceiling “Stories of Samson” 1607/08 by Guido Reni
(1575/1642) who, during the same period, also the frescoed the ceiling of the
HALL OF DAMES with the “Pentecost”
The room
contains an impressive collection of paintings at least 1,800 years old:
Frescoes
Wedding
scene with “The Marriage of Alexander and Roxane” also known as Nozze Aldobrandini
(Aldobrandini Wedding) of the Augustan period found in 1605 by the Arch of
Gallienus
It was
preserved in the Villa
Aldobrandini at Magnanapoli and since 1818 in the Vatican
It is one
of the most beautiful and best preserved paintings that we have from antiquity
“Heroines of Tormarancia” third century AD found in 1816 in
the ruins of a villa. There are various heroines of Greek tragedy represented
“Odyssey Landscapes” first century BC from the frieze of
a room discovered in 1848 on the Esquiline Hill
“Cargo Ship with wheat” third century AD found in Ostia in
1865
“Processions of children” third century AD found in Ostia in
1868
Mosaics
“Garlands of leaves and fruits” from Villa
Adriana in Tivoli
“Landscape and animals” from the Aventine Hill
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