The Vatican Museums originated as a group of sculptures collected by Pope Julius II (1503-1513)
and placed in what today is the “Cortile Ottagono” within the museum
complex. The popes were among the first sovereigns who opened the art
collections of their palaces to the public thus promoting knowledge of
art history and culture. As seen today, the Vatican Museums are a
complex of different pontifical museums and galleries that began under
the patronage of the popes Clement XIV (1769-1774) and Pius VI (1775-1799).
In fact, the Pio-Clementine Museum was named after these two popes, who
set up this first major curatorial section. Later, Pius VII (1800-1823)
considerably expanded the collections of Classical Antiquities, to
which he added the Chiaromonti Museum and the “Braccio Nuovo” gallery.
He also enriched the Epigraphic Collection, which was conserved in the
Lapidary Gallery.
Gregory XVI (1831-1846) founded the Etruscan Museum
(1837) with archaeological finds discovered during excavations carried
out from 1828 onwards in southern Etruria. Later, he established the Egyptian Museum
(1839), which houses ancient artifacts from explorations in Egypt,
together with other pieces already conserved in the Vatican and in the
Museo Capitolino, and the Lateran Profane Museum (1844), with statues,
bas-relief sculptures and mosaics of the Roman era, which could not be
adequately placed in the Vatican Palace...
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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