The collection of engravings was initially transferred to the Sala del Sansone The Library Administration made various vain attempts to save it from demolition. Unfortunately, the Prints Room was destroyed only a few years later, in 1820, to make way for the construction of the "New Wing" of The fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, in 161 large volumes. It is a superb collection including more than 17,000 engravings by different artists from The pontificate of Pius VI also saw the creation of the first systematicĬollection of engravings of the Vatican Library, which is now called the Fondo Antico (or Old Collection). The Prints Room was thusĮstablished on the same floor as the Salone Sistino, near the Pigna Courtyard, where the Chiaramonti Museum is located today. In 1785, he wanted to form a Prints Room specifically for the conservation of engravings and prints which were found in the Vatican Library. But it was Pope Pius VI Braschi (1775-1799) who pressedĪ prints collection in the Library. The first reference to a substantial collection of prints in the Vatican Library goes back to 1773, when there were around 30,000 prints. Il Catalogue of Graphic materials and Art objects may be consulted on-line. The Prints Cabinet is enriched by artistic material through bequests, donations, acquisitions,Īnd especially through the gifts which are made to the Holy Father. These maintain a certain autonomy inasmuch as they are "closed collections" of a certain size. It also includes some smaller collections, such as the Ashby and Gismondi (or Maps) Collection, the Copperplate Collection, the Drawings Collection and the Photographic collection. The Prints Cabinet is made up of five main collections: The Prints Collection, the Geographic Prints Photographs and chalcographic and xylographic plates. The Library’s collections and which were added to the collection of engravings due to the similarity of the necessary conservation measures. It also preserves a considerable number of drawings which have, over the course of time, become part of Into books or which are not accompanied by printed texts. The Prints Cabinet of the Vatican Library is an important artistic collection which preserves engravings and loose prints, i.e.
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