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The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome. [1] Intended to capture the anguish of 20th century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, La Resurrezione depicts Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in the Garden of Gethsemane. Fazzini summarized the action of ...
It is dominated by an 800-quintal (80-tonne) bronze/copper-alloy [3] sculpture by Pericle Fazzini entitled La Resurrezione (Italian for The Resurrection). [4] [5] A smaller meeting hall, known as Synod Hall (Aula del Sinodo), is located in the building as well. This hall sits at the east end on a second floor.
The museum and collection were enlarged by Clement's successor Pius VI. Today, the museum houses works of Greek and Roman sculpture. Some notable galleries are as follows: Octagonal Court (aka Belvedere Courtyard and Cortile delle Statue): this was where some of the first ancient classical statues in the papal collections were first displayed ...
Bring your Windex. The Greektown Heritage Festival will take place from noon – 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, in downtown Detroit’s historic Greektown, celebrating the rich, ethnic Greek heritage ...
Pope Francis's weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting. The women ...
Papal tombs; Papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica; Paul VI Audience Hall; Tomb of the Julii; Torre San Giovanni; Scala Regia; Via della Conciliazione; Vatican Climate Forest; Vatican Heliport; Vatican Hill; Vatican Necropolis; Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah; Postage stamps and postal history of Vatican City; Public holidays in ...
St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The baldachin is at the center of the crossing, and ...
At the bottom of a grand staircase a large statue of Hippolytus decorates the La Galea entrance hall. [19] In the first semi-basement there is a papyrus room and a storage area for manuscripts. [19] The first floor houses the restoration laboratory, and the photographic archives are on the second floor. [19]