June 27, 2010

The Vatican Museum

The Vatican Museums contain masterpieces of work, statues, as well as additional works of art collected by the popes through the hundreds of years. The Museums contain numerous monumental works of art, such as the Sistine Chapel, the Chapel of Beato Angelico, the Raphael Rooms and Loggia and the Borgia House.

The Pinacoteca, or Picture Gallery, is located inside a building that dates back to just before 1932 and that has been created by the architect Beltrami. It is connected to the Museum complex (at the entrance of the Quattro Cancelli) by an elegant portico. If you want to visit Roma, you will need an Appartement près de la Fontaine de Trévise

The Christian, Profane and Missionary-Ethnological Museum houses a collection of artistic and archaeological objects, some of an ethnological nature, that were once housed in the Lateran Palace.

The Collection of Modern Religious Art had been added to the Museums in 1973. The History Museum is situated in the Lateran Palace and includes, among other things, things that belonged to the Pontifical Armed Corps.

The Museums are normally open to the public each weekday morning and in the early afternoon in summer time. Entry is gratis on the last Sunday of each month. The entrance to the Museums is located at on Viale Vaticano, near Square Risorgimento. Now that you know everything about Italia, you can go to France and take an appartement de luxe paris

A Workshop for Restoring paintings, bronzes, marble, tapestries and other items, is part of the Museums which also has a Scientific Research Laboratory. The most wonderful part of Vatican museum is for me The Chapel Sistine. The chapel has a rectangular shape. It measures 41 × 13 meters, and was built using somewhat ordinary bricks. From the outside there is nothing spectacular about the building. It has a barrel-shaped roof, topping 20 meters. On the inside, the chapel is divided into 2 by a transenna: a fence made from marble. The part facing the altar is only accessible to priests.
Each of the two long walls has 6 large arched windows. The walls are covered by 3 virtual rings with decorations. At floor level: tapestry designed by Raphael, showing scenes from the gospels and the Acts.

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