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    The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome. They display works from the...
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    Apostolic Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Italian: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally...
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  • Vatican Athletics (Latin: Athletica Vaticana) is a sports organization associated with Vatican City. Established as an athletics club of the city state...
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    to an admirable Pietà by Carracci, seen in the Palazzo Farnese of Caprarola. It's unknown, however, whether that refers to the Pietà now in Naples or...
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    nuntiandi, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, §48 Pope Francis (November 24, 2013). "Evangelii gaudium". Libreria Editrice Vaticana. §125. Williams, Ronald (1960)...
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    artist Pietro Perugino, executed in 1495–1496, and housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Vatican City. The work was commissioned by the Decemviri ("Ten Men")...
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    representations of a sorrowful Virgin Mary, the other two being Stabat Mater and the Pietà. In this iconography, Our Lady of Seven Sorrows is at times simply represented...
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    dedicated to the Pietà, and was founded by Pietro Vittrice, a friend of Pope Gregory XIII and close follower of Filippo Neri. The Capella della Pietà occupied...
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    established studio in Florence, and received a great number of commissions. His Pietà (1483–1493) in the Uffizi is an uncharacteristically stark work that avoids...
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    San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece (category Paintings of the Pietà)
    had a lunette of a Pietà with Mary Magdalene, John the Apostle, and the Virgin Mary at the top. This is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome. This was...
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