Vatican Museums - Pinacoteca Vaticana

Pinacoteca Vaticana

The art gallery was housed in the Borgia Apartment, until Pope Pius XI ordered construction of a proper building. The new building was inaugurated on October 27, 1932. The designer was Luca Beltrami. The museum has paintings including:

  • Giotto's Stefaneschi Triptych
  • Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Opere di Misericordia
  • Raphael's Madonna of Foligno, Oddi Altarpiece and Transfiguration
  • Leonardo da Vinci's St. Jerome in the Wilderness
  • Caravaggio's Entombment
  • Perugino's Madonna and Child with Saints and San Francesco al Prato Resurrection
  • Filippo Lippi's Marsuppini Coronation

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