The Vatican Museums will exhibit two significant works by Italian masters who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries: Bellini and Bazzi, the latter better known as Sodoma. These are two paintings depict Christ's death, but through different perspectives and theological themes.
Visitors to the Pontifical Villas will be able to admire these works for the next six months with the cost of visitation averaging around €17.
The Vatican Museums' duty is not only to maintain these masterpieces, but to preserve them. This crucial work that is handled by their restoration labs. In order to display these masterpieces in public, their staff dedicated countless hours to restoring them.
The result: they have revived two great works that survived the passage of time and even a war. In fact, one of these paintings was captured during Napoleonic invasion in Italy, a time in which the theft of vast quantities of artwork were taken to Paris. The Vatican worked hard to have them returned, and today they can once again be admired in all their glory.
