Pio Cristiano Museum

The Good Shepherd, c. 300 at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Rome

The Pio Cristiano Museum is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

Sources

The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176-189)

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Museums and art galleries in Rome

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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica	Palazzo Barberini Palazzo Corsini

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