TRICLINIUM OF POPE LEO

TRICLINIO LEONIANO
Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano

1743 Ferdinando Fuga (1699/1782) for Benedict XIV Lambertini (1740/58)
Partial reconstruction of the ancient triclinium erected by St. Leo III (795/816) as the dining room of the Patriarchìo (Patriarchate palace)

MOSAIC
“Jesus and eleven apostles” with on the left “Jesus gives the keys to St. Peter and the banner to Constantine” and on the right “St. Peter offers the bishops’ pallium to Leo III and the banner to Charlemagne” 1743 by Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674/1755)

Ghezzi used very few original elements but executed it as a copy of the original, prudently documented by Pier Paolo Cristofari before being destroyed. He had tried to move it of 180 degrees without success
It was originally executed at the time of the institution of the Holy Roman Empire by Charlemagne on the year 800

LATERAN PALACE - HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF THE VATICAN

PALAZZO LATERANENSE

Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano

1586/89 Domenico Fontana (1543/1607) for Sixtus V (1585/90) to replace the old palace where the popes lived for 1,000 years known as Patriarchìo (Patriarchate)

It was converted into a hospital and then in archives

Restored for Gregory XVI Cappellari (1831/46) by Luigi Poletti (1792/1869)

Since 1844 there was the Gregorian Profane Museum, since 1854 the Pio-Christian Museum and since 1926 the Ethnological Missionary Museum. These museums were later transferred to the Vatican

Since 1929 it has the privilege of extra-territoriality and since 1967 it is the seat of the ROME VICARIATE

“The results of the operations of Domenico Fontana, although dictated more by pragmatic spirit, than from an original artistic vision, in fact exerted a strong influence on the visual culture of the Baroque artists, for the evidence of those values​of spatial dynamism, of open geometry, born from the overlap of a new programmatic structure over the complex fabric of the old city. (...) One joint as that of St. John Lateran (...) for the presence of ancient monuments and alignments dictated by the survival of ruins, turned out to be not so much a square as a 'space' rich in multiple perspective indications, so much to propose a new relationship between the viewer and the architecture” (Paolo Portoghesi)

On 28 July 1993 part of the façade of the building and the side entrance of the Basilica of St. John Lateran were severely damaged by a car bomb

Even if the stability of the façade was damaged, it was possible to repair the damage quickly. This attack was seen as a warning to the Pope, who shortly before had spoken in Sicily against the Mafia

From 1987 on the first floor there is the

Museo Storico Vaticano

Historical Museum of the Vatican

PAPAL APARTMENT

CHAPEL AND TEN ROOMS

Frescoes with cycle “Glory of Sixtus V” and “Stories of the Old and New Testaments” executed under the direction of Giovanni Guerra (1544/1618) by several late Mannerist painters including:

Cesare Nebbia (1536/1614), G.B. Ricci (about 1550/1624), Ventura Salimbeni (1568/1613), Andrea Lilio (about 1555/1632), Ferraù Fenzone (1562/1645), Paris Nogari (about 1536/1601) e Matthijs Brill (1550/83)

ROOM OF THE CONCILIATION

Orientation and the dimensions of the hall of the popes of the Patriarchate where the Lateran Pacts signed on February 11, 1929

There is still the “Coffered wooden ceiling” of 1589

HISTORICAL MUSEUM

1) Collection of weapons of the sixteenth and seventeenth century

2) Iconography of the Popes

3) Ceremonial uniform and items of the papal court