The trial stemmed from an Aug. 18 protest in the Vatican Museums, during which Viero and Goffi glued their hands to the base of the Laocoon statue, one of the most important ancient works in the ...

The trial stemmed from an Aug. 18 protest in the Vatican Museums, during which Viero and Goffi glued their hands to the base of the Laocoon statue, one of the most important ancient works in the ...

A group of climate protestors who damaged the base of an ancient statue in the Vatican museums are now being tried in Vatican City court. In August 2022, Guido Viero and Ester Goffi affixed their ...

The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue. Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a ...

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Following the discovery of the statue in Rome in 1489, Pope Julius II requested the Apollo Belvedere to be brought to the Vatican in the early 16th century to be part of a papal collection known ...