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Hidden Vatican masterpiece gets first major restoration in centuries

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The Independent UK · Jun 24

Famed Vatican passageway is getting its first major restoration in over 500 years

The Vatican Museums announced Wednesday the launch of a five-year, $5.5 million initiative to clean and restore the Raphael Loggia

The Independent UK · Jun 24

Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment' fresco undergoes 3-month cleaning at Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgment” is undergoing its first major restoration in three decades

The Independent UK · Feb 2

Pope Francis invites artists to the Sistine Chapel as the Vatican seeks a new cultural dialogue

Pope Francis has praised artists as true visionaries who can see, dream and invent

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2023

Beyond the Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums says 'we are much more'

Barbara Jatta, the first woman to head the Vatican Museums, wants visitors to avoid being suffocated by the crowds and take in the lesser-known - but spectacular - attractions she helps to oversee.

Reuters · May 30, 2023

Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts

Pope Francis says talks are underway to return artifacts in the Vatican Museum that were acquired from Indigenous peoples in Canada and has voiced a willingness to return other colonial-era objects in the Vatican’s collection on a case-by-case basis

The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2023

Vatican unveils new ethnographic display of Rwanda screens

The Vatican Museums has officially reopened its African and American ethnographic collections by showcasing intricately restored Rwandan raffia screens

The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023