255 artists to meet pope to revive relationsMore than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage. will meet Pope Benedict XVI  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday.
The November 21 meeting at the Sistine Chapel will be "a representative moment showing the will to dialogue between the church and the art world", said Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture The Pontifical Council for Culture (Latin: Pontificium Consilium de Cultura) dates back to the Second Vatican Council. A whole section of that documents on the Church, Gaudium et Spes . All the arts will be represented, from painting, cinema, poetry and theatre to architecture, literature and music. American video artist Bill Viola and British director Peter Greenaway will join a mostly Italian crowd of 255 artists that includes film composer Ennio Morricone and directors Nanni Moretti and Marco Bellocchio. The talks come 45 years after a similar initiative, also held in the Sistine Chapel, when Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (Latin: Paulus PP. VI; Italian: Paolo VI), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. offered a mea culpa on the church's treatment of artists in the past. The date also comes 10 years after Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła wrote a letter to artists emphasising that the church "needs art". 
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