LIST OF POPES - Musei Vaticani ---------------------

Speranza

We start the history with Giuliano della Rovere, although noting that there were at least two other popes involved with the future Museum collections, as they settled in the Belvedere area: Niccolo, and Innocenzo. Indeed, it was Innocenzo's idea to name the villa the "belvedere", for that was what it provided.

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CINQUECENTO:

ROVERE,
Giuliano della
n. Savona
Giulio II. 
 

He was the initiator of the Musei Vaticani. After the finding of the Laocoonte, della Rovere decides to open the "Cortile ottagonale" to the public.

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MEDICI,

Giovanni de',

n. Firenze

Leo X

 

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 FLORENT,

Adrian

n. Utrecht

Adriano VI

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 MEDICI

Giulio de'

n. Firenze

Clemente VII

 

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FARNESE,
Alessandro

n. Canino, Viterbo.

 Paulo III

 

He kept the ancient statues he found in his own palazzo, the "Farnese": Ercole Farnese, Toro Farnese. Now in Napoli.

 

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CIOCCHI DEL MONTE,

Giovanni 

n. Roma.

 Giulio III

 

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CERVINI, Marcello,

n. Montepulciano.

 Marcello II

 

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CARAFFA,

Giovanni,

n. Napoli

 

PAULO IV

 

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 MEDICI, 

Giovanni Angelo de'

n. Milano.

 

PIO IV

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GHISLIERI, Michele,

n. Bosco Ligure,

 

PIO V

 

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 BONCOMPAGNI, 

Pietro

n. Bologna.

Oreirorio XIII

 

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 PERETTI,

Felice

n. Montalto

 

SESTO V

 

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CASTAGNA,

Giovanni Battista,

n. Roma

 

Albano VII

 

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SFRONDATI,

Nicola

n. Cremona

 

GREGORIO XIV

 

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 FACCHINETTI,

Giovanni Antonio.

n. Bologna.

 

Innocenzo IX

 

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 ALDOBRANDINI,

Ippolito,

n. Fano Lamberto

Clemente VIII

 

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MEDICI,
Alessandro
n. Firenze


Leo XI

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BORGHESE,
Camillo
n. Rome.

PAULO V

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LUDOVISI,
Alessandro
n. Bologna.

Gregorio XV. 

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BARBERINI,
Maffeo
n. Firenze

Urbanus VIII

---- famous for various items.

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PAMPHILI


Innocentius X. (GioA'anni Battista Pamtili), Rome.

CHIGI
Alexander VII. (Fabio Chigi), Siena.

ROSPIGLIOSI

Clemens IX. (Giulio Rospigliosi), Pistoja.

ALTIERI
Clemens X. (Giovanni Battista Altieri), Rome.

ODESCALCHI

Innocentius XI. (Benedetto Odescalchi), Como.

OTTOBONI

Alexander VIII. (Pietro Ottoboni), Venice.


PIGNATELLI
Innocentius XII. (Antonio Pignatelli), Naples.

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ALBANI

Clemens XI. (Giovanni Francesco ALBANI), Urbino.

CONTI,
Innocentius XIII. (Michelangelo CONTI), Rome.


ORSINI
Benefictus XIII. (Pietro Francesco Barbetti Orsini), Rome.

CORSINI

Clemens XII. (Lorenzo Corsini), Florence.

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LAMBERTINI
Benedictus XIV. (Prospero Lambertini), Bologna.

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REZZONICO
Clemens XIII. (Carlo Rezzonico), Venice.

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GANGANELLI
Lorenzo
n.S. Angelo in Vado

Clemente XIV

The first most important, institutionally, as he was the founder of the MUSEUM CLEMENTINUM.


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BRASCHI
Angelo
n. Cesena
PIO VI

The second most important, institutionally: the "Pio" in the "Pio Clementino" Museum.

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CHIARAMONTI
Gregorio Barnaba
n. Cesena

Pio VII

Important, as he was the founder of the "Museo Chiaramonti" (which includes the "Nuovo Braccio")>

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GENGA,
Annibale della
n. Spoleto
LEO XII


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CASTIGLIONI,
Francesco
n. Cingoli

 Pio VIII

CAPPELLARI
Mauro
n. Belluno

Gregorio XVI
Important as he was the founder of the MUSEO ETRUSCO, at the Lateran Palazzo, only recently transferred to the Vatican.

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MASTAI-FERRETTI,
Giovanni 
n. Sinigaglia
Pio IX.

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PECCI,
Gioachino
n. Carpineto
LEO XIII