We could all this time we have to discuss the Vatican Museums, where only the large number of galleries and museums that make up this great collection of art submitted. And if we tried, the number of artists and great works of art can be found in the Vatican Museums list would fill a book! In fact, there are books in the Vatican Library, the catalog does any work of this important gathering, and when and where they were issued.
E 'was Pope Julius II, who in 1506collection of Vatican art began with the purchase of a large sculpture of Laocoon and his sons as a battle powerful creatures of the sea. From there, the collection of the Vatican to dozens of galleries and museums and has become literally thousands of works of visual art.
One of the many museums in the Vatican art community and the Etruscan Museum, founded in 1837 Despite the earlier to us, this collection is one of the youngest of the family and contains many old VaticanExcavation in southern Etruria and surrounding districts and brought to Rome in order to be seen. The work of art of Etruria is similar to that historians of ancient mosaics and sarcophagi in Egypt, which were collected at the height of the Roman Empire.
Another wonderful collection of the Gallery of Tapestries, which consists of tapestries of the fifteenth century onwards the seventeenth century. The first time that these initiatives have been put on display was in 1814, and their artis so exquisite, that all major museum in the world should welcome their collections.
The diversity of the Vatican Museums to continue in the Gallery of Maps. Painted directly on the gallery wall panels are 40 regions in the world in the form of a card. These cards are both very artistic and equally fascinating. And 'interesting to note that this type of instruments on-site GPS and other modern toys we use came and were the only way the researchers found that venturedItaly finds many of the countries of the New World.
Le Stanze di Raffaello not miss when you schedule a time to see the Vatican Museums. There you will find four bedrooms, all connected, that were built 1447-1455. In these four rooms are some of the great works of the famous painter Raffaello. It is interesting to note that the rooms were so called because the work of Raphael adorn every room, not because they are dedicated to present hisArt.
He does not know much guess what in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. But it is certainly worth a visit to the great art from some of the great teachers of history to see where Van Dyck, Perugino, Poussin, and Giotto.
How to use the language so you can give the wrong impression of what you see in the Gregorian Museum of Art secular, because it does not dirty pictures here. As part of this as one of the Vatican Museums, "profane art" simply means that the issueOf art is not sacred in nature. This interesting collection was made in 1970 to open the Republican and Roman sculptures from the imperial era, as well as sarcophagi, and the nature of things.
Three years after the opening hours of the Gregorian Museum of Art secular Pavilion movement. The building is located under the Square Garden is located and is used for vehicles used for driving over the centuries for the Pope and other senior Vatican officials were on displaya. Along with the cars that may occur in transport Pavilion, you can also find additional evidence, such as pictures of parades or periods in which the popes were in the procession, and harnesses for horses and other support elements that are used for the maintenance and documentation of these vehicles were.
But there is no doubt that the highlight of a visit to the Vatican Museums, the time spent in the famous Sistine Chapel, is in great masterpieceThat Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the chapel. As you look to you that this is an easy to remember for a lifetime. But do not lose at the tribunal last of Michelangelo, who is back and has a chapel 20 years later.
Nothing will be able to replace the impression that you take a look at this ceiling. There you will witness will be nine panels show the biblical characters, including Noah, an unknown number of male nudes, Sibyl and the crowningEach advertises himself as God touching Adam's finger and give it life. The famous writer Goethe sums up the feeling one has when you see the painting when he said:
"Without seeing the Sistine Chapel, can be a real idea of what must be able to afford a person".
Goethe's words easily applied to hundreds of other exceptional works of art, hundreds of master artists whose work is on display in many buildings of the Vatican Museums.
