Vatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Chiaramonti Museum: Gelliae Agrippiane
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Sheppard, Beth M.
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20-May-17
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Italy , Vatican City , Rome , Vatican Museums , Musei Vaticani , Art Museums , Chiaramonti Museum , Museo Chiaramonti , Early Roman Art , Early Roman Sculptures , Sculpture Museums , Roman Clothing , Roman Garments , Clothing of Roman Women , Pallas
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Sculpture within the Chiaramonti Museum, which houses about a thousand sculptures. The museum is part of the Vatican Museums. The Vatican Museums are public galleries that display about 20,000 of 70K works collected by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries. The museums were founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Only the Louvre in France receives more annual visitors than the Vatican Museums. The museums consist of 24 galleries, with the Sistine Chapel being the last room visited. The Chiaramonti is named after Pope Pius VII, who was born Barnaba Chiaramonti, and founded it in the 19th century. A new wing (Braccio Nuovo) was added in 1822. Another part of the Chiaramonti, the lapidary gallery, contains over 3000 tablets and stone inscriptions, but is only open to scholars on request. The statue pictured is that of Gelliae Agrippiane, CP (an abbreviation of "Claissimae Puellae," or "Elite Status maiden" or "illustrious maiden/girl" or "most distinguished maiden," as noted on the plinth. This was a title in the late 1st to 2nd centuries (Antonine period). It was used to identify a daughter of a Roman senator, who enjoyed the highest aristocratic level of Roman society. The sculpted woman is wearing typical Roman dress of a tunic with a palla (elegant cloak) wrapped over it.
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