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Ancient Aboriginal Art emerges from Vatican vault
I heard about Professor Margo Neale visiting the Vatican some months ago from my publisher and art critic friend, Susan McCulloch. I was so excited to hear the Vatican had decided to show their vast collection to the world. The recent feature in the Sydney Morning Herald should arouse interest worldwide.
IT WAS dubbed ”Una Notte Australiana”, the night the Antipodes invaded the Vatican. Bark and stone artefacts took their place beside the masters of the Renaissance and the mysterious drone of the didgeridoo enveloped St Peter’s Basilica.
As more than 8000 Australians flooded into the Eternal City for today’s canonisation of Mary MacKillop, Aboriginal treasures held in the vaults of the Vatican Museums for 85 years were revealed for the first time.
More than 300 artefacts – collected by missionaries for an exhibition commissioned by Pope Pius XI in 1925 – have been properly curated for the first time, an event project leader Professor Margo Neale described enthusiastically as “a miracle”.
