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Gregorian
Profane St. Jerome in the Wilderness
Leonardo da Vinci’s unfinished
Pio-Christian Museum work, lost then rediscovered in
Museum the 19th century, shows the
artist’s mastery of anatomy.

Entrance
Round
Chariot Room
Room Pinacoteca
Pio-Clementine
Museum

Greek Cross Hall
Stairs up

Stairs Room of the Busts
down Braccio This contains
Nuovo portraits of
emperors and other
notable Romans.
Chiaramonti
Museum

Vatican
Library
Lower floor
Lapidary
Gallery

Laocoön and His Sons
This 1st-century AD marble
group depicts the Trojan priest
Laocoön and his sons struggling
with two serpents.
Key to Floor Plan
Egyptian and Assyrian art
Greek and Roman art
Etruscan and other pre-Roman art
Apollo del Belvedere Early Christian and medieval art
Room of the Animals This Roman copy of a 15th- to 19th-century art
Roman mosaics, like these Greek statue of the sun Modern Religious art
delightful ducks, decorate god Apollo perfectly
the walls and floor of this embodies the ideals Nonexhibition space
room of animal sculptures. of Classical beauty. Open by special permit only

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