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    The founding of the Vatican Museums can be traced back to 1503 when the newly-elected Pope, Julius II, placed a statue of Apollo in the internal courtyard of the Belvedere Palace built by Innocent VIII; he brought the statue from the garden of his titular church of St. Peter in Chains. In 1506 the Laocoon was added to the collection, after its discovery on the Esquiline Hill before the eyes of Giuliano di Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti.

    Scores of artifacts were added throughout the next two centuries and the collections were eventually reorganized under Benedict XIV (1740-1758) and Clement XIII (1758-1769). They founded the Apostolic Library Museums: the Sacred (Museo Sacro - 1756) and the Profane (Museo Profano - 1767).

    The Christian Museum, comprising finds from the catacombs that could not be conserved in situ, was founded by Pius IX in 1854 in the Lateran Palace and was moved to the Vatican Museums by Pope John XXIII.

    Pope Pius XI inaugurated in 1932 the definitive seat of the Vatican Picture Gallery (the Pinacoteca), near the monumental entrance of the Vatican Museums.

    The Fabbrica of Saint Peter's - 40 Images
    The Treasury of Saint Peter's - 36 Images
    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum I - 60 Images
    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum II - 45 Images
    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum III - 38 Images
    Gallery of Tapestries - 48 Images
    The Gallery of Paintings I - 17 Images
    The Gallery of Paintings II - 14 Images
    The Gallery of Paintings III - 10 Images
    The Gallery of Paintings IV - 15 Images
    The Gallery of Paintings V - 12 Images
    The Pio-Clementine Museum - 17 Images
    The Christian Museum I - 10 Images
    The Christian Museum II - 8 Images
    Museums of Sculptures I - 17 Images
    Museums of Sculptures II - 18 Images
    The Gregorian Profane Museum - 11 Images
    The Gregorian Egyptian Museum - 22 Images
    The Gregorian Etruscan Museum I - 73 Images
    The Gregorian Etruscan Museum II - 56 Images
    The Missionary - Ethnologic Museum - 17 Images
    The Collection of Modern Religious Art - 11 Images

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