Opis:
The Chiaramonti Museum is set out in the long loggia which joins the small Palace of the Belvedere to the Vatican Palaces. It is named after pope Pius VII Chiaramonti (1800-1823) and marks a very dramatic period in the history of the Vatican Collections. Under the terms of the Treaty of Tolentino (1797), Napoleon ordered the Papal States to cede the major part of the masterpieces in the Pio Clementino Museum to France. Much later, the Congress of Vienna (1815) and the diplomatic work of the sculptor, Antonio Canova, brought about the recovery of almost all the pieces of sculpture taken away.