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Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0121
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "The Madonna leaving the Papal apartment."

Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0116
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "Cleaned and ready for crating, a 17th century portrait of Pope Clement IX is taken from the Pinacoteca, the Vaticanís picture gallery, through a private garden behind St. Peterís. The Painting was given to the Vatican in 1931 by Louis Mendelssohn of Detroit."

Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0117
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "One of 10 huge tapestries that Raphael designed for the Sistine Chapel of the Miraculous Draught of Fishes is restored, after a careful washing, by Franciscan nuns. They dye their own thread in 6,000 colors, using more durable cotton to replace lost silk."

Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0120
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "Father Alfons Stickler, head of the Vatican library, stands in the vestibule of the library of Sixtus V, under its 16th century ceiling frescoes. The 1,300-year-old altar cloth he holds has not been exhibited for 25 years."

Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0119
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "The Roman muse Calliope is having grit brushed from between her fingers."

Title: Secret treasures of the Vatican
Identifier: e_ef_0118
Creator: Ferorelli, Enrico
Dates: 1982-06
Resource: Enrico Ferorelli photographic archive
Description: LIFE magazine (December 1982) caption reads, "Thalia, the muse of comedy with her traditional tambourine, leaves the Vatican's Room of the Muses for her first bath in memory. Then she will be crated and like the other treasures, flown by Pan Am-the airlineís gift to the exhibit-to New York."