Vatican Museums

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticano ) harboring the papal art collections and are located on the territory of Vatican City.

The collection is one of the most important and largest in the world and the areas of Oriental Antiquities (Egypt and Assyria ), classical antiquity includes ( Greco- Roman art ), Etruscan and Italic Antiquities (now Italy before Roman times ), Early Christian and Medieval Art (3rd -14. century), Art of the Renaissance ( 15th century) to the 19th century, contemporary art and an ethnographic collection. The most famous part, which can be visited in the course of a visit to the museum is the Sistine Chapel.

Museums and collections

The name " Vatican Museums " has already indicated that this is created and housed in different parts of the Vatican palace to several in the course of time.

  • Palazzi Vaticano ( Papal Palace ) Gallery (Gallery) Galleria dei Candelabra ( Gallery of the Candelabra )
  • Galleria degli Arazzi ( Gallery of Tapestries )
  • Galleria delle Carte Geografiche ( Gallery of Maps)
  • Cappella Sistina ( Sistine Chapel )
  • Cappella Niccolina ( Nicholas Chapel )
  • Cappella di Urbano VIII ( Chapel of Urban VIII )
  • Appartamento di San Pio V. ( chambers of St. Pius V )
  • Sala Sobieski ( Sobieski - hall )
  • Immaculate Sala ( Hall of the Immaculate Conception)
  • Stanze di Raffaello ( Raphael's Rooms ) Stanza della Segnatura ( Hall of signature)
  • Stanza of Heliodorus (Room of Heliodorus )
  • Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo ( Hall of Borgo Brands)
  • Sala dei chiaroscuri ( Hall of chiaroscuro paintings)
  • Sala di Constantino ( Konstantin hall )
  • Sala delle Sibille ( Room of Sibyls )
  • Sala del Credo ( Hall of the Creed )
  • Sala delle Arti liberalization ( Hall of the Liberal Arts )
  • Sala dei Santi ( Hall of the Saints)
  • Sala dei Misteri ( Hall of Secrets)
  • Sala dei Pontefici ( Hall of the Popes )
  • Cortile della Pigna ( Pinienhof )
  • Cortile della Biblioteca ( library courtyard )
  • Cortile del Belvedere ( Cortile del Belvedere )
  • Musei e Collezioni ( Museums and Collections ) Musei of Antiquity Classiche ( Collection of Antiquities ) Museo Pio - Clementino
  • Museo Chiara Monti (or Galleria Chiara Monti )
  • Braccio Nuovo Gallery detta
  • Galleria Lapidaria ( inscription gallery)
  • Special exhibition venues Sala della biga ( Hall of the chariot ( biga ) )
  • Collezione Grassi
  • Museo Storico - Padiglione delle Carrozzeria ( Carriage Pavilion, transport of the Vatican)
  • Museo Filatelico e Numismatico ( Philately and Numismatics )
  • Sacred Museum or Museo Cristiano
  • Sistine Hall
  • Sala Papyri
  • Paoline Sale, Sale dell'Alessandrina and Galleria Clementina
  • Pottery of the 9th to 18th century
  • Small mosaics

The building of the Pinacoteca dates back to 1931 and was Pope Pius XI. been commissioned to organize a collection of paintings new. Many of the paintings were taken by Napoleon to Paris in 1797 and returned as a result of the Vienna Congress again. The time of origin of art from the Middle Ages until 1800. 's Paintings are exhibited in 18 halls in chronological order, including works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Angelico.

The museum was founded by Pope Clement XIV and should include the most important Greek and Roman works of art of the Vatican. Pope Pius VI. enlarged the museum and expanded the collection. Famous part of the complex is the spiral " Scala Bramante ", created in a square tower. The staircase was given in 1512 by Julius II in order to connect the Palace of Innocent VIII with the city. Today in the Museum of Greek and Roman sculptures are housed in the ancient times.

The museum was in 1839 by Gregory XVI. founded and houses an extensive collection of artefacts from ancient Egypt. Included are papyrus documents, mummies, the famous " Book of Death " and the " collection Grassi ".

The on 2 February 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI. Founded in museum displays archaeological finds from southern Etruria, such as vases and bronzes. In addition, the collection contains an extensive collection of vases from the Hellenized Italy as well as finds from the Roman period.

The museum was in 1884 by Gregory XVI. established in the Lateran Palace, and in 1970 moved to the Vatican. The collection contains Greek originals, copies of Greek works from Roman times and Roman sculptures from the 1st to 3rd century AD. Well known is the group of " Athena and Marsyas " by Myron.

The museum, founded in 1973 houses the used through the centuries papal state carriages and other means of transport. Except carriages, automobiles and sedans also the model of the first locomotive of the Vatican City from 1929 can be seen.

The museum, founded in 1807, has been set up for statues of Roman busts and is named after Pope Pius VII Chiara Monti. The collection contains about one thousand sculptures, including imperial portraits, images of deities and numerous fragments, friezes and reliefs of sarcophagi. 1822 came as a new building of the new wing ( " Braccio Nuovo " ) added, are exhibited in the Roman statues and copies of Greek originals dating from Roman times, and in its floor mosaics are set.

Selected sculptures

Venus and Cupid

Augustus of Prima Porta

Laocoon Group

Allegory of the Nile

Antonio Canova: Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Arnaldo Pomodoro: Sfera con Sfera (1990 )

Vatican courtyards

There are now three farms, the Cortile della Pigna, the Cortile della Biblioteca del Belvedere and the Cortile. The Cortile della Pigna owes its name to a huge, almost 4 m high pine cones made ​​of bronze. This was in ancient Rome near the Pantheon and was brought into the court of the old St. Peter's Church in the Middle Ages. It received its current location in 1608. Right and left of the pine cone are two bronze peacocks, copies of the originals from the 2nd century AD, which are kept in the Braccio Nuovo. Cortile della Biblioteca del Belvedere and Cortile flank the Vatican Library.

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