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Sixtus IV

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  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • The inauguration of the Vatican Library by Pope Sixtus IV: Platina (kneeling) is appointed librarian. Chromolithograph after Melozzo da Forli.
  • The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.

Works from the collections

5 works

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    Sixtus IV and men of letters / Egmont Lee.

    Lee, Egmont. | Date: 1978
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    Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.

    Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 665018i
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    Pope Sixtus IV being shown the plans for the rebuilding of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, and for its foundling hospital, and approving them. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?), after a fresco.

    Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 665020i
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    The inauguration of the Vatican Library by Pope Sixtus IV: Platina (kneeling) is appointed librarian. Chromolithograph after Melozzo da Forli.

    Melozzo, da Forlì, 1438-1494. | Reference: 38039i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.

    Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 665025i

Related topics

Rome
Hospitals
Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia

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