The complex history of the Vatican Museums, so well summarized in this volume, closely reflects the changing contexts and the political, cultural and social upheavals that have succeeded one another down the centuries. What emerges is the profile of an Institution in many ways unique on the international cultural scene, open like few others to the rest of the world but, at the same time, aware and proud of its specific nature as the "Museum of the Popes".

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