Andreas Raub new Museum Director of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rom

The art historian Dr Andreas Raub (* 1989 in Aachen), member and in 2014/15 research associate of the RIGG, has now been appointed museum director of the Roman splendid church of Santa Maria Maggiore (on the Esquiline Hill near Termini Central Station): Direttore del Polo Museale Liberiano.

Inaugurated by Pope John Paul II in 2001, the museum houses the rich collection of sacred treasures from the Papal Basilica: precious reliquaries, vasae sacrae, paraments, paintings (by Domenico Beccafumi, among others) or the cot by Arnolfo di Cambio. The excavations (Scavi) under the basilica with mosaics from the imperial period and frescoes of the famous annual calendar, the Benediction loggia with the medieval mosaics by Filippo Rusuti and the so-called Scala Bernini at the adjacent Sala dei Papi, built by Pope Paul V, are assigned to the museum.

Andreas Raub studied Catholic theology, art history and history in Gießen, Rome and Berlin and completed his doctorate at Humboldt University in 2019 on the phenomenon of furnishing churches with Italian altarpieces from the holdings of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. Andreas Raub gained professional experience at the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Bavarian National Museum in Munich and the Vatican Museums, among others. 

Raub published an article on Ferdinand Pettrich in the Römische Quartalschrift 2018, participated in the RIGG's event on the naval battle of Lepanto on 3 December 2021 (video) and has been a consultant for art history at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society since April.

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