when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the updated statue on October 15. In addition to repairing the cracks, experts have also cleaned ...
The Vatican has returned three fragments of the ... sculptures have survived and almost half of them are in the British Museum. "The ceremony today... similar to the gesture by the government ...
Restoration experts spent years working on the "Apollo Belvedere", repairing fractures in its knees and legs, cleaning the entire cream-coloured statue with lasers, and installing a carbon fibre pole ...
One of their places had to be the Vatican Hill—its name a ... statues at the ancient town of Ostia—statues that are now on display in the museum. Contemporary art, too, has an important ...