Art and Exhibition Hall - Exhibitions - High Renaissance in Vatican

Sebastiano del Piombo Portait Pope Clemens VII, ca. 1526 © Napels, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte Photo: Luciano Pedicini

Art and Culture in Papal Rome I High Renaissance in the Vatican (1503 - 1534) 11 December 1998 to 11 April 1999

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Musica Vaticana Music from the Vatican manuscripts (1503 - 1534) RealAudio Music

CAD-Reconstruction Computer aided 3-dimensional reconstruction of the Vatican Palace in the High Renaissance

In the first three decades of the 16th century, Papal Rome developed into Europe’s principal art centre: it was home to the most famous architects, sculptors, painters, musicians and humanists of the period. They made the Vatican Palace into an overall work of art "which is without parallel on Earth" (Jacob Burckhardt). The exhibition shows the masterpieces commissioned by Popes and Cardinals: paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo and Titian, the famous tapestries based on cartoons by Raffael originally intended for the Sistine Chapel as well as sketches and letters by Michelangelo. The numerous magnificently decorated manuscripts from the Papal library are unique. The statue garden of Pope Julius II will be reconstructed on a scale of 1:1 for the exhibition where the famous Graeco-Roman statues can be admired again in their original layout. Many of the exhibits on display in Bonn have never before been shown outside the Vatican. For the Popes, art was a medium not only for portraying the spiritual dimension of Christianity but also for political expression. The first half of the 16th century in particular was rich in events which continue to influence our lives today; this applies above all to the conflict surrounding the reformation of the church. Important works from other international collections – inter alia from the Louvre, the Prado, the British Museum and the Uffizi – place the works shown in Bonn in a cultural historical context. A three-dimensional computer-animated reconstruction of the Vatican Palaces during the High Renaissance, the result of an international research project, will be presented for the first time. Accompanied on their virtual tour by a "Cicerone", visitors will experience the rooms of the Papal palace in their original decor. Numerous works in the Bonn exhibition can also be discovered on this tour. A full-size projection of the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel enables the visitor to recognise every detail, down to Michelangelo’s finest brush strokes. The significance which the Graeco-Roman statues in the Papal collection hold for Renaissance art is made clear not only by original exhibits, sketches and bronze copies but also by CENSUS (Link to Census), the archaeological and art historical database of Graeco-Roman art at the Humboldt University in Berlin. This is the first time it has been integrated into an exhibition (Link to Dyabola Project).

There will be an extensive, 528-page catalogue in both German and Italian, containing essays by international authors as well as 410 colour and 400 black and white illustrations. It will be available for DM 78,- Curators: Lothar Altringer Max-Eugen Kemper Paolo Liverani Giovanni Morello Arnold Nesselrath Project Assistant: Tatjana Bartsch Architect: Paolo Martellottiemail: Lothar Altringer Project Manager, Curator The Exhibition Team

Bartolomeo Cancellieri Jacopo Sadoleto © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

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