The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.[1]
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The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854,[2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.
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The Good Shepherd (c. 300)
References
edit- ^ "Pius-Christian Museum – Vatican Museums". www.museivaticani.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
- ^ "Pio-Christian Museum". www.vaticanstate.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
External links
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Media related to Collections of the Pius-Christian Museum (Vatican Museums) at Wikimedia Commons- The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176–189)
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