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