3615978 Pope Gregory XVI Visiting the Church of San Benedetto at Subiaco, 1843 (oil on canvas) by Montessuy, Jean-Francois (1804-76); 125.1x140.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: The monastery of San Benedetto at Subiaco outside Rome, was built during the Middle Ages as a pilgrimage site. Pope Gregory, who visited in 1834, is shown emerging from the Sacro Speco, the cave venerated as the one in which Saint Benedict lived as a hermit about A.D. 500. ); French, out of copyright.