Talk-Comment about watching preparations at the Metropolitan Museum for the exhibition entitled "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art". This is an assortment of 237 sculptures, paintings, ceramics, textiles, and examples of metalwork from the vast collections of the Vatican. Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Museum is the man primarily responsible for bringing the show to N.Y. Writer tells about her talk with him. He said the Vatican now has nine museums with collections that range from antiquities and paintings to ethnic and contemporary art, and they are showing objects from all of them. The works are arranged in chronological order of the papacies that collected them. (This story is one part of a 5-part survey of recent cultural activities.)
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