Pio Cristiano Museum
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The Good Shepherd, c. 300 at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Rome
The Pio Cristiano Museum is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.
The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.
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External links
- The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176-189)
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