Vatican Museum…,

The Vatican Museums are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by popes throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.

THE PINACOTECA –

1. Fra Angelico – Madonna and Child, with St Dominic and St Catherine (Room III) , 2. Raphael – Transfiguration (Room VIII) , 3. Leonardo Da Vinci – St Jerome in the Wilderness (Room IX) , 4. Veronese – The Vision of St Helena (Room X) , 5. Caravaggio – The Entombment of Christ (Room XII)

The Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) is one of the more modern sections of the Vatican Museums, opened in the 1930s to display the papal collection of paintings. The gallery comprises sixteen rooms of some of the finest paintings in the world, from medieval angels to seventeenth century martyrdoms. They’re all worth seeing, but these are some of the highlights.

GALLERY OF GEOGRAFIC MAPS.

The panels map the entirety of the Italian peninsula in large-scale frescoes, each depicting a region as well as a perspective view of its most prominent city. It is said that these maps are approximately 80% accurate.

With the Apennines as a partition, one side depicts the regions surrounded by the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas and the other depicts the regions surrounded by the Adriatic Sea.

RAPHAEL’S ROOMS.

The four Raphael Rooms form a suite of reception rooms, now part of the Vatican Museums in Vatican City. They are famous for their frescoes, painted by Raphael and his workshop. Together with Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes, they are the grand fresco sequences that mark the High Renaissance in Rome.

MichelangeloPope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael, are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums.

The Last Judgment is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity.