Past Events
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23 Mar, 24PastConnoisseurship and the Old Master Market: Tools and Tactics for Navigating the world of Old Master Paintings
Join us on Saturday, March 23, at 3:30 PM for a talk by David Pollack, head of the Old Master Paintings Department at Sotheby's, followed…
17 Sep, 23PastBernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa: Orthodox or Transgressive?
Join us Sunday, September 17, 5:30 PM at Gran Gusto in Cambridge for a presentation by Professor Franco Mormando, followed by dinner and lively discussion!…
01 Apr, 23PastThe Journey to Jerusalem
Life is a journey and we call a spiritual journey a pilgrimage. Please join Father Michael Collins, as we visit two of the…
Chapter news
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04
Jan
Happy New Year!
Read moreWishing you and your families a very healthy, blessed and fruitful New Year! Please enjoy this short video from our beloved Director of the Vatican
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07
May
Dante in the Vatican Museums
Read moreIn the year of Dante – the key figure of 2021 – the Pope’s Museums join of the world, and the Holy See in particular, in
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21
Apr
The Veiled Madonna that Fascinates the World
Read moreby Barbara Jatta In these days of uncertainty, general downtime, of closed museums, theaters, and cinemas, of life so different from what we are used
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13
Nov
New England Vatican Patrons Sponsored Project — Crivelli’s Madonna and Child — featured in Vatican Museums Exhibition
Read moreRestoration sponsored by the New England Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums In the Madonna and Child altarpiece, the signature and date of the
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09
May
The Restoration of the Portrait of Giuseppe Bossi by Antonio Canova
Read moreNew England Vatican Patrons featured in April Vatican Patrons Parcel newsletter: The restoration of the Portrait of Giuseppe Bossi by Antonio Canova is finally completed
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31
Dec
Inside the Vatican Museums | EWTN Vaticano Special
Read moreVisit the Vatican Museums, take an exclusive look at the Vatican Library, and catch up with a review of the news and events from the
Rospigliosi Triptych
Formerly in the collegiate church of San Venanzio in Camerino, Marche, and donated by Prince Altieri to Pope Leo XIII in 1888, the work consists of three panels executed in tempera and fitted with a richly carved and gilded frame, featuring the trigram IHS (center), the Announcing Angel (left), and the Virgin Annunciate (right).
Sculpted Portrait of Giuseppe Bossi by Antonio Canova
On December 9, 1815, friends and admirers gathered to remember the famous writer, painter and critic, Giuseppe Bossi. Bossi, who served as the Secretary of the Brera Academy...
Crivelli's Madonna and Child
The painting originates from the Church of San Francesco in the town of Force, near Ascoli Piceno....
The Life of a Swiss Guard:
A Private View
The exhibit, which was originally sponsored by the California Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, was prominently on display in the Vatican Museums during the months of April, May and June of 2016.