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Allegory of the River Arno in the Vatican Museums
Busts in the Chiaramonti Museum
Head of Oceanus in the Vatican Museums
Bust of the Roman Emperor Philip the Arab
Bust of a bearded man
Floor mosaics at the Chiaramonti Museum
New Wing of the Chiaramonti Museum
Allegory of the River Nile
An allegory of the River Nile featuring sixteen cherubs
New Wing of the Chiaramonti Museum
Sculpture of the Roman emperor Lucius Verus
Statue of Octavian Augustus at Prima Porta
Chiaramonti Museum
Busts from the Chiaramonti Museum
Statues in the Chiaramonti Museum at the Vatican Museums
Statues in the Vatican Museums
The statue of Hercules and Telephus in the Vatican Museums
The Chiaramonti Museum in the Vatican Museums
Vatican Museums
Bronze pine cone in the Belvedere Courtyard
Cortile della Pigna in the Cortile del Belvedere
The God Nile in the Vatican Museums
Gregorian Egyptian Museum
Mummies in the Vatican Museums
Cortile della Pigna in the Cortile del Belvedere
The Hall of the Armour in the Vatican Museums
Vatican Palace
Silhouette of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica
Escalator at the Vatican Museums
Church of Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri
The Colonnade of St Peter’s
The statue of Saint Giuliana Falconieri
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s canopy in St Peter’s Basilica
Vatican Grottoes
The tomb of Saint Peter the Apostle in the Vatican Grottoes
Chapel of Our Lady of St Peter in the Vatican Grottoes
The tomb of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)
The sarcophagus of Pope John Paul I
The sarcophagus of Pope Pius III
Michelangelo’s Pietà

The personification of the god, an allegory of the River Tigris or Arno, dating from 160 or 178 AD, located in the octagonal courtyard (Vatican Museums)

Bust of an unknown figure in the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The large bearded head of Oceanus mounted on an altar in the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

Bust of the Roman Emperor Philip the Arab, removed from Castel Porziano and placed in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

A bust depicting a bearded man, probably associated with the imperial court and dating from the 2nd century AD, as yet unidentified, located in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

Mosaics dating from the 2nd century AD that adorn the floor of the Braccio Nuovo in the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The New Wing of the Chiaramonti Museum, featuring Roman statues displayed in the side niches, designed by Raffaele Stern and subsequently completed by Pasquale Belli

The allegory of the River Nile, a Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture from the 1st century AD, surrounded by sixteen cherubs, on display in the new wing of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The sculptural group depicting the allegory of the River Nile with sixteen cherubs in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The bust of Emperor Commodus in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The statue of the Roman emperor Lucius Verus, located in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The white marble statue of Octavian Augustus from Prima Porta, located in the Braccio Nuovo of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

The New Wing of the Chiaramonti Museum, built by Raffaele Stern and completed by Pasquale Belli in 1822

On the left is a portrait of a prince from Constantine’s family, in the centre an unidentified figure, and on the right a portrait of Marco Emilio Skavar in the gallery of busts at the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

From the right: the goddess Hygieia, Silenus with a panther, and Diana Minerva in the gallery of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

On the left, a sculpture depicting the Greek god Dionysus accompanied by a satyr, in the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

On the left, the statue of Hercules and Telephus in the gallery of the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums)

Busts and statues at the Chiaramonti Museum (Vatican Museums), built by Pope Pius VII in 1808 and curated by Antonio Canova

Entrance to the long gallery of the Chiaramonti Museum in the Vatican Museums, commissioned by Pope Pius VII

The colossal bronze pine cone situated in the courtyard of the same name, almost 4 metres tall, which in classical times stood in Rome near the Pantheon

The large niche in the Cortile della Pigna, part of the Cortile del Belvedere designed by Donato Bramante

The large statue of the god Nile, a Roman copy dating from the 1st century AD, in Room IV of the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (Vatican Museums)

Reconstruction of the Serapeum and the Canopus at Hadrian’s Villa (Tivoli) in Room III of the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (Vatican Museums)

Mummies, painted wooden sarcophagi and canopic jars in the central display case in Room II of the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (Vatican Museums)

The Cortile della Pigna within the Cortile del Belvedere, designed by Donato Bramante, with the large Roman bronze pine cone at its centre

The Atrio delle Corazze, covered by a steel and glass scaffolding

The Four Gates Courtyard at the Vatican Palace, completed by the architect Giuseppe Camporese

Silhouette of the dome of St Peter’s Basilica, 136 metres high, designed by Michelangelo

The escalator leading to the Vatican Museums, with the new spiral ramp on the left, built in 1999 for the Jubilee

On the left is the main entrance to the Vatican on Via di Porta Angelica and the church of Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri

On the left, Bernini’s Doric colonnade; on the right, the Porta Angelica in the Leonine Walls, which overlook the Colonnade Square

The statue of Saint Giuliana Falconieri in St Peter’s Basilica, sculpted by Pietro Paolo Campi of Carrara

Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s baldachin (1633) in St Peter’s Basilica and the dome built by Giacomo Della Porta and designed by Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Vatican Grottoes, situated three metres below the floor of St Peter’s Basilica, and to the right, the niche containing the tomb of Pope Pius XI (1939)

The tomb of St Peter the Apostle in the Vatican Grottoes, remains discovered in 1968

Chapel of Our Lady of St Peter in the Vatican Grottoes, with the sarcophagus of Pope Pius VI on the left

The tomb of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła), who died on 2 April 2005, was moved to St Peter’s Basilica following his beatification

The sarcophagus of Pope John Paul I (Albino Lucianni) in the Vatican Grottoes, designed by Francesco Vacchini in 1978

The sarcophagus of Pope Pius III (Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini) in the Vatican Grottoes

Michelangelo Buonarroti’s statue of the Pietà in St Peter’s Basilica, created in 1499 at the invitation of Cardinal Jean de Bilhères

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