The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek ... Vatican since the early 1500s, when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican ...

Reunification ceremony for three Parthenon fragments from the Vatican Museum ... Greek government has been formally calling for their return since 1983, arguing that Elgin and his men looted the ...

(photo: Julia Cassell/EWTN News / EWTN) The Vatican Museums this ... curator of the Greek and Roman antiquities department. “The preciousness of this sculpture is infinite because it is an ...

The Vatican Museums are ... an ancient sculpture that inspired Michelangelo and many other artists. We continued to the Statues Courtyard. As we gazed at the ancient Greek sculpture of Laocoön ...

The inscription FCS accompanying the statue on a slab of travertine marble indicates it was struck by lightning, according to Claudia Valeri, curator of the Vatican Museums department of Greek and ...

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century. The Vatican said ...

and its decorative friezes contain some of the greatest examples of ancient Greek sculpture. According to the Vatican Museums website, one piece being returned to Greece is the head of the horse ...

The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the updated statue on October 15.

The Vatican Museums ... on the sculpture — between the research project and the actual study and restoration — has been just over two years,” said Claudia Valeri, curator of the Greek ...