The Vatican collections: the papacy and art

Message by Pope John Paul II

Foreword / Philippe de Montebello, James N. Wood, Ian McKibbin White

Acknowledgments / Philippe de Montebello, George Weissman

Map of Vatican City State

The Vatican museums

Old Saint Peter's

The Fabbrica of Saint Peter's

The Apostolic palaces

The Belvedere

The Treasury of Saint Peter's

New Saint Peter's and Baroque Rome

The library museums

Museo Pio-Clementino

Pinacoteca

Museo Gregoriano Egizio

Museo Gregoriano Etrusco

The collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in the 19th and 20th centuries

Museo Pio Cristiano

Pontificio Museo Missionario-Etnologico

Collezione d'Arte Religiosa Moderna

Saint Peter and his successors

Contributors to the catalogue

Photograph credits.