#The Vatican

[mysharona1987]

Well, someone just cost himself a role in Scream 7.

[isabelle-primrose]

Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI by Frank Cadogan Cowper circa 1910

[scleramotif]

bacchus at the vatican

6.20.24

[flantxo-no1]

THIS IS THE MASCOT FOR THE 2025 HOLY YEAR HER NAME IS LUCE (Light in Italian) I LOVE HERRRR

[reality-detective]

I'll just leave this 👆 here... You Decide 🤔

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol meeting Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on April 2, 1980.

Photos by Lionello Fabbri

[springtime-creations]

Ain't no way we got an official anime mascot for the Vatican before GTA 6-

[madamemachikonew]

When one of the most evil hoarders of wealth in the world launches a marketable plush.

And Pantalone.

Reference:

And also Priestlone by @straw-bunbun

[blueiscoool]

Restored 'Apollo Belvedere' Marble Statue Back in the Vatican

The Vatican Museums on Tuesday unveiled the restoration of the celebrated second-century "Apollo Belvedere" sculpture following five years of work.

Once considered to epitomise classical Western ideals of beauty, the 2.24-metre-high (seven-feet-tall) marble statue shows the Greek god of medicine and poetry in motion, his left arm having just let fly an arrow from his bow.

Its around 260,000-euro ($280,000) restoration aimed to fix serious structural defects detected late in 2019, the restorers said.

Those notably included fragilities in the legs and an overall lack of balance in the structure, they told a press conference.

Thanks to the introduction of a carbon-fibre rod fixed to the back of the base, the "Apollo Belvedere" was successfully stabilised and presented to public applause at the Vatican's Pio-Clementine Museum.

The most difficult thing was "not to touch anything on the sculpture" and avoid having to move and dismantle it, the restoration workshop's head Guy Devreux told AFP.

"We found this new system, which is a dynamic structural system based on the use of carbon fibre… and which, used in the right way, can give extraordinary results," he added.

For the Vatican Museums' director Barbara Jatta, "the main challenge was to have the courage to close access to such an important icon for our museums".

Discovered in 1489 among the ruins of an ancient Roman house, the "Apollo Belvedere" was brought to the Vatican by Pope Julius II.

Besides the carbon-fibre rod, the restorers also replaced the statue's left hand with a cast taken from a fragment of a plaster copy of the original Greek statue made in Roman times.

The "Apollo Belvedere" is in fact considered to be a marble copy of a bronze from around 330 BC attributed to Leochares, one of the foremost sculptors of his time.

[asgoodeasgold]

A goode dose of side glances and priestly hotness 🫠

It does not happen often but here are four rarely seen promo photographs of Matthew as Bernd Koch, the "spectacularly handsome and well-built papal secretary" in The Vatican (to quote the script). They were kindly shared by 2muchimmersion on Twitter (thank you so much 🙏🩷). I have edited them, in particular changing the original beige background to a steely blue. To me, this accentuates the mystery of Matthew's character.

I cannot get over how beautiful these pictures are. And I am feeling again utterly bereft that we can't see this pilot 😭.

📷 Promo images for The Vatican TV pilot (2013) from Scott Free. Originals shared by 2muchimmersion on Twitter. My edits.

[mysharona1987]

Joe Biden, the Catholic Church, Christian organisations and US Congress when they clearly give the IDF co-ordinates to avoid Christians and nuns and the IDF use the info to bomb and snipe them anyway:

Gee, guys. Guess they weren’t only after Muslims.

That’s what a genocide actually is. Everyone is collateral damage. Doesn’t matter what God you believe in.

[short-wooloo]

I wonder what the implications of Godzilla nesting in Rome are for the catholic church

[rebeccafergusonfan]

Rebecca Ferguson & Matthew Goodeon | BTS of The Vatican (Unsold Pilot) | 2013

[scleramotif]

bacchus at the vatican

6.20.24

[reality-detective]

1.5 billion dollars in settlements for sexual abuse of children paid by the Roman Catholic Church, the largest settlement ever paid. October 2024

And it goes much... Much Deeper 🤔

[countriesgame]

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