Museo Pio Cristiano
The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.
The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.
Gallery
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The Good Shepherd (c. 300)
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See also
References
- ^ "Pius-Christian Museum – Vatican Museums". www.museivaticani.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- ^ "Pio-Christian Museum". www.vaticanstate.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Collections of the Pius-Christian Museum (Vatican Museums).
- Vatican Museum Tickets
- The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176–189)
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