Vatican Splendors Exhibit

May 19, 2010

Tomorrow we are going to St. Louis to visit my 89 year old aunt and attend the Vatican Splendors exhibit to experience, as the web page says, “2000 Years of Vatican Art and History”. Since my aunt does not have the internet, I will not be able to participate in my favorite weekend memes hosted by fellow bloggers.  I will have one or two posts which will appear at this site during the rest of the week, though.

If you have friends or relatives who live not far from St. Louis, encourage them to go to this exhibit.  No doubt I will never get back to the Vatican in this life, so it will be a great opportunity to see things I would not otherwise get to experience.  Unfortunately I cannot show any pictures here today because the Vatican holds the copyright to all the promotional images, so visit the home page of the exhibit at the link above to see some of the magnificent work on display.  You can be sure I will be posting about my visit next week.  Here’s some information on the exhibit:

Vatican Splendors is organized into nine galleries, with content, narrative, objects, and artworks reflecting important developments, moments, people and events that have marked the foundation of the Church and the history of the Vatican.

Galleries:

Introduction (and presentation of The Swiss Guards)

Gallery 1: Early Christian Dialogue between Faith and Art

Gallery 2:  The Rise of Christian Rome

Gallery 3:  The Early Renaissance

Gallery 4:  Michelangelo

Gallery 5:  The Renaissance Basilica

Gallery 6: Art in the Service of Faith

Gallery 7: Art of the Liturgy

Gallery 8: Dialogue with the World

Gallery 9: The Successors of Peter: Papal Portraiture

Gallery 10: Art and the Contemporary Papacy

Gallery 11: The Local Diocese

Many of the works and documents exhibited in “Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art” have never been on public display or previously left the Vatican. Therefore, this exhibition has provided an occasion for undertaking a careful restoration and conservation process that will preserve these objects for future generations.

The Missouri History Museum is the first of just three U.S. locations chosen to host Vatican Splendors: A Journey through Faith and Art.

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