Vatican Museums

From the archive | Pope Francis appoints Vatican Museums' first female director

Barbara Jatta will take up her new role on 1 January

Vatican begins final work on Raphael rooms

The work may make it possible to identify which parts of the frescoes were painted by Giulio Romano, Raphael’s most trusted apprentice

Hannah McGivern

Museums & Heritagenews

From the archive | ‘Because of him, even more people come to Rome’: director of the Vatican museums describes the crowd-pulling impact of Pope Francis

Antonio Paolucci discusses the role of the Vatican's museums as custodians of sacred and profane art after the city state makes its underground necropolis accessible during Francis's first year as spiritual leader of the world's catholics

Anna Somers Cocks

Raphaelarchive

Colour restored to Vatican’s Raphaels

After more than a decade, restoration of the monumental fresco cycle has finally been completed

Diana d'Arenburg and Ermanno Rivetti

Exhibitionsarchive

Vatican lends Raphael’s finest tapestries

Papal blessing and private funder for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show

Martin Bailey

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