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Vatican Museums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (708 words) |
 | The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| This museum is named after Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti, who founded it in the early 1800s. |
| The museum consists of a large arched gallery in which sides are exhibited several statues, sarcophaguses and friezes. |
| Vatican Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (888 words) |
| Pope Nicholas V established the library in the Vatican in 1448 by combining some 350 Greek, Latin and Hebrew codices inherited from his predecessors with his own collection and extensive acquisitions, among them manuscripts from the imperial library of Constantinople. |
| In 1623, the hereditary Palatine Library of Heidelberg containing about 3500 manuscripts was given to the Vatican by Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria in thanks for the adroit political maneuvers of Pope Gregory XV that had sustained him in his contests with Protestant candidates for the electoral seat. |
| The Vatican Library is a research library for history, law, philosophy, science and theology, open to anyone who can document their qualifications and their research needs to view the collection. |
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