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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.
During the Renaissance, European society experienced a renewal of interest in the ideas and artistic techniques of the Greco-Roman classical world. [10] This led to features and motifs from classical architecture being featured prominently in the design of much of the Vatican's buildings, most notably in the case of St Peter's Basilica.
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 ...
The Vatican Museums trace their origin to a single marble sculpture, purchased in the 16th century: Laocoön and His Sons was discovered on 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. [11]
The Pope's throne in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. (From Wood Carvings in English Churches, 1910). The Chair of Saint Peter (Latin: Cathedra Petri), also known as the Throne of Saint Peter, is a relic conserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the sovereign enclave of the Pope inside Rome, Italy.
"The meeting between Pope Francis and the world's comedians aims to celebrate the beauty of human diversity and to promote a message of peace, love and solidarity," the Vatican said.
Between 1616 and 1617, Pope Paul V added straight corridors leading to the Confessio of Saint Peter, [2] along with several chapels such as the Chapel of the Salvatorello and the Chapel of the Madonna of Bocciata, [3] adorned with hagiographic paintings by Giovanni Battista Ricci.