Apostolic Palace - Borgia Apartment - Vatican Museum

The Borgia Apartment is a series of six monumental rooms in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican City, which are now part of the itinerary of the Vatican Museums where, since 1973, the Collection of Modern Religious Art is partly housed.

It is the most reserved wing commissioned by Pope Alexander VI Borgia (1492-1503), decorated by Bernardino di Betto known as Pinturicchio and assistants.

Currently, most of the rooms are intended for the exhibition of the Collection of Modern Religious Art, inaugurated by Paul VI in 1973.

The collection includes about six hundred works of painting, sculpture and graphics, the result of donations by contemporary Italian and foreign artists: there are also works by Gauguin, Chagall, Klee and Kandinskij.

The rooms of the Borgia apartment were created as the private residence of Pope Alexander VI and his family, and decorated with an extraordinary cycle of frescoes by Bernardino Pinturicchio and aides, datable to 1492-1494.

After the Pope's death they were in fact abandoned and reopened to the public only at the end of the 19th century.

Map: Apostolic Palace - Borgia Apartment - Vatican Museum

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Address: Musei del Vaticano, 00120, Stato  del Vaticano
Roma (RM) Lazio
Latitude: 41.903410945170634
Longitude: 12.456082105636597
Site: http://www.museivaticani.va/co...

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Type: Building
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Creation date: 29-10-2019 12:32
Last update: 07/07/2022