Vatican unveils last of restored Raphael Rooms after 10-year cleaning that yielded new discoveries

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The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways rival the Sistine Chapel as the peak of high Renaissance artistry. (Video courtesy of Associated Press, Vatican Museums)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/06/27/vatican-unveils-last-of-restored-raphael-rooms-after-10-year-cleaning-that-yielded-new-discoveries  Join this channel to get access to perks:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5664f6TkaeHgwBly50DWZQ/join   Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin   Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin  Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin   #ManilaBulletinOnline  #ManilaBulletin  #LatestNews

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00:00With this restauro we have a part of the art story, a part of the art that sees the

00:17Allievi of Raffaello, of the divino Raffaello, of the one who, at the beginning of the Renaissance,

00:22left this land, who is born in the 16th century and left a great tradition.

00:28And this is exactly the moment in which he leaves, he conceives iconographically,

00:35as a general project, he realizes two works that we found, which were reported by the font,

00:44but we have understood also technically, thanks to all the findings, thanks to this restauro,

00:49so we have two Raffaello in more in our catalog, but it also leaves a great heredity,

00:57an heredity to his Allievi and to all the school that will come after di Raffaello.

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