July 11, 2010
Visit The Vatican Museum
The Vatican Museums include masterpieces of work, statues, as well as additional works of art collected by the popes throughout 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 situated in a building that dates back to just before 1932 and that has been created by the architect Beltrami. It is linked to the Museum complex (at the entry of the Quattro Cancelli) by an stylish 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 bits and pieces, some of an ethnological nature, that were once housed within the Lateran Palace.
The Collection of Contemporary Religious Art had been added to the Museums during 1973. The History Museum is situated in the Lateran Palace and includes, among other things, items that belonged to the Pontifical Military Corps.
The Museums are normally open to the public every weekday morning and in the early afternoon in summer season. Access is free on the last Sunday of every month. The entrance to the Museums is on Viale Vaticano, close to Piazza Risorgimento. Now that you know everything about Italia, you can go to France and take an appartement de luxe paris
A Workshop for Restoring work, bronzes, marble, tapestries and other items, is part of the Museums which as well includes 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.