RAI, the state-run TV network, provided live coverage, as did Vatican TV . Newspapers for days have devoted pages to the visit, even supplying diagrams of D'Alema's route through the Vatican palaces.
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He also holds the girdle in the " Madonna della Cintola " ( often called an " Assumption " ) by Pinturicchio in the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican Palace ( 1492 94 ), where he is the only apostle.
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In Rome he worked on several frescoes in the Vatican Palace including the " Views of Rome with the Translation of the Remains of St . Gregory Nazianzus ", executed soon after the actual transfer of the saint's remains in June 1580.
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In the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Palace, allegories and historical scenes are mixed together, and the Raphael Cartoons show scenes from the Gospels, all in the Grand Manner that from the High Renaissance became associated with, and often expected in, history painting.
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The 12th-century English cleric Magister Gregorius wrote a descriptive essay " De Mirabilibus Urbis Romae " and recorded in an appendix three pieces of sculpture he had neglected : one was the Wolf in the portico at the principal entrance to the Vatican Palace.
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Originally commissioned as a free standing work of art within St . Peter's itself, the sculpture was finally unveiled in 1670 as an integral part of the Scala Regia-Bernini's redesigned stairway between St . Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Palace.
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This resulted in an oval shape that formed an inclusive arena within which any gathering citizens, pilgrims and visitors could witness the appearance of the pope either as he appeared on the loggia on the facade of St Peter's or on balconies on the neighbouring Vatican palaces.
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It was painted in Naples and shows the old entrance to the Vatican palace, which was destroyed when Bernini's Scala Regia and colonnade were constructed, as well as clock towers ( campanili ) based on an engraving of a never-executed design by Martino Ferabosco.
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When ( early 20th century ) the Secretariate of Briefs was placed under the direction of the Cardinal Secretary of State, the offices of this great department were transferred to the Vatican Palace and established in the unoccupied halls of the old picture-gallery, all on the same floor.
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A special section of the gallery is devoted to the making of the " Disputa, " the monumental fresco commissioned by Pope Julius II for the Vatican Palace's papal library, now known as the " Stanza della Segnatura, " where the pope's supreme tribunal convened.
