Painting of Christ in Glory.
The Vatican Pinacoteca (Art Gallery) was inaugurated on 27 October 1932 in the building especially constructed by the architect Luca Beltrami for Pius XI.
The Vatican's art collection has grown over the years through donations and purchases until it reached the current nucleus of 460 paintings, distributed among eighteen different rooms on the basis of chronology and school, from the so-called Primitives (12th-13th century) to the 19th century.
The collection contains some masterpieces of the greatest artists of the history of Italian painting, from Giotto to Beato Angelico, from Melozzo da Forlì to Perugino and to Raphael, from Leonardo to Tiziano, to Veronese, to Caravaggio and to Crespi.
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