Sentence examples for vatican palace from inspiring English sources

Vatican palace, papal residence in the Vatican north of St. Peter's Basilica.

The Vatican palace is the residence of the pope within the city walls.

Pacheco relates that he was given rooms in the Vatican palace, which he found very isolated.

Raphael was 25 when Pope Julius II invited him to decorate the papal apartments in the Vatican palace.

Sistine Chapel, papal chapel in the Vatican Palace that was erected in 1473 81 by the architect Giovanni dei Dolci for Pope Sixtus IV (hence its name).

Refusing to accept Italy's occupation of the city, Pius IX withdrew and declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican palace, a position that his successors maintained until 1929.

In the second part, called "Meditations on Genesis on the Threshold of the Sistine Chapel," the 82-year-old pope reflects on the frescoed hall in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace where he was elected and where his successor will be chosen.

The term is sometimes applied to an entire building with a planned view, as the Belvedere gallery in the Vatican or the Belvedere palace in Vienna.

Founded in 1942 and housed in a small round tower at the foot of the Apostolic Palace, the Vatican bank generally does not give loans but manages deposits and patrimony for religious institutions, clerics and diplomats accredited to the Vatican, who are among the only depositors allowed to hold accounts there.

Since the Renaissance and its rediscovery and obsession with the art of ancient Greece and Rome, the Vatican, along with royal palaces of Europe, have been actively collecting freshly excavated samples of Classical art.

Most influential was the garden courtyard designed by Donato Bramante at the Vatican to link the papal palace with the Villa Belvedere; the uneven site and the disparity in bulk of the two buildings was overcome with terraces and stairways.