Museo Pio Cristiano

Summary

The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.[1]

Museo Pio Cristiano

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854,[2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

References edit

  1. ^ "Pius-Christian Museum – Vatican Museums". www.museivaticani.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  2. ^ "Pio-Christian Museum". www.vaticanstate.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.

External links edit

  •   Media related to Collections of the Pius-Christian Museum (Vatican Museums) at Wikimedia Commons
  • The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176–189)

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