VATICAN CITY MUSEUMS TOUR - ROME

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THE VATICAN MUSEUMS Close to St Peter's Basilica are the corridors of the Vatican Museums that attract 4 million people every year from all over the world. A marvelous journey that will take us through a constellation of 13 museums and see some of the greatest treasures of humanity. They present the preserved and extraordinary legacy of culture, history, and beauty that the Roman Pontiffs have collected and preserved for centuries: this is the mission of the Vatican Museums today. The Vatican Museums are plural as they are a complex of different collections, all extraordinarily important. Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman, Christian, and epigraphic, paintings of several centuries and the great Renaissance of Raphael and Michelangelo in the “Rooms” and the Sistine Chapel. And then there are the decorative arts, the ethnological collections, the historical collections, the carriages and the papal berlins, up to modern and contemporary art. A dynamic museum where tradition and innovation find a perfect synthesis, able to render concrete what the Roman Church has pursued for centuries in her cultural institutions. Tradition, to be dated back to Pope Julius II, to that 1506 which saw the creation of the “Courtyard of the Statues”, the most celebrated in Rome at the time, in the heart of the Vatican Belvedere. Then, the great museum era of the eighteenth century, passing through Canova and reaching, with Pope Pius XI in the aftermath of the Lateran Treaty of 1929, an organic and effective institutional order for the Museums, made accessible to the world via the portal opened in the Vatican Walls. Tradition that is protection, restoration, conservation and enhancement of the collections through study, research, teaching, international projects, conferences and exhibitions. Innovation, which is indispensable today for the functioning of an Institution that receives millions of visitors each year, and where thousands of people, employees and collaborators, work every day. Innovation that enables the Museums collections to be appreciated in a dynamic and current way, and which through this new web site enables the most remote places of our world to be reached. It is my hope that every visitor who enters the Vatican Museums is pervaded by that sense of privilege at finding oneself inside the Beauty that leads to Faith, and that this digital tool may also be a vehicle for knowledge, harmony and spirituality. Pinecone Courtyard. The pinecone fountain is made out of bronze and was found near the Pantheon but was originally on top of Hadrian's mausoleum, water use to pour out of the scales. The 2 bronze peacocks on each side also came from the Mausoleum. Sphere within a Sphere. The Octagonal court was the first of the museum palaces built by Pope Julius II. The statue of Apollo was the first statue in 1503 and later Popes added to the collection. God of the Tiber River, Laocoon group Statue. Sala Rotonda was modeled after the Pantheon. Floor is paved with a roman mosaic. Bathtub of Nero Made of porphyry. Bronze Statue of Hercules. Juno Queen of the Gods and protectress of women. Sala of Croce Greca. The Sarcophagi of Helena and Constantina are two fourth century porphyry sarcophagi. The Gallery of tapestry; Flemish tapestries, realized in Brussels by Pieter van Aelst’s School from drawings by Raphael’s pupils, during the pontificate of Clement VII (1523-1534), hang on the walls. They were first shown in the Sistine Chapel in 1531. Gallery of Maps.... Raphael Rooms... Sala di Constantino... Battle against Maxentius.... in this sign conquer Stanza di Eliodoro. St Peter in Chains being freed by the Angel. The Room of the Segnatura contains Raphael's most famous frescoes. Besides being the first work executed by the great artist in the Vatican they mark the beginning of the high Renaissance. Dante Alighieri. St Thomas of Aquinas. Music: - Olympus - Sound track (Copyright and Royalty Free) Ross Bugden https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQKG... - The Story Unfolds: YouTube Library. - The Poisoned Princess Media Right Productions isrc=USUAN1100406 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ - The Angels Weep by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ - Cantus Firmus Monks, Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions - Agnus Dei X - Bitter Suite by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://www.amazon.com/Agnus-Dei-X/dp/B00QGC7W3Y Artist: http://incompetech.com/