The world of Vatican MuseumsThe Vatican Museums bring together the collections of the popes and some of the most famous spaces of the Apostolic Palace, from the Sistine Chapel to Raphael's Chambers.
1506Installation of Laocoon, traditional origin of museums
1508 - 1512First decoration of the vault of the Sistine Chapel
1932Inauguration of the current Pinacoteca
460 paintings €460Core of the Pinacothèque, overall institutional estimate
Hand paintedReal oil painting, no print.
Formats of your choiceA composition adapted to the dimensions ordered.
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Vatican City · Origins in 1506 · Pontifical art and world civilizations
The Vatican Museums bring together the collections of the popes and some of the most famous spaces of the Apostolic Palace, from the Sistine Chapel to Raphael's Chambers.
The modern history of the Vatican Museums is traditionally linked to 1506, when Julius II installed the Laocoon in the courtyard of the Belvedere. The popes then developed antiquities museums, galleries, libraries, collections ethnological and art gallery, while having their apartments decorated by Fra Angelico, Pinturicchio, Raphael and Michelangelo. The Pio-Clementino, Chiaramonti, Egyptian Gregorian and Etruscan Gregorian museums are gradually organizing the archaeological heritage. The current Pinacoteca, inaugurated in 1932, preserves approximately four hundred and sixty paintings. In 1973, Paul VI opened the collection of modern religious art, today with several thousand works. The Annunciation of Gentile da Fabriano, the Transfiguration, the Last Judgment and the School of Athens here summarize the transition from international Gothic to the height of the Renaissance. The "Vatican Museums" selection notably compares The Annunciation - Gentile da Fabriano and The Transfiguration - Raphaël Sanzio. His reading favors movement.
In the Vatican, collection and architecture are inseparable: mobile works dialogue with the chapels and apartments for which art was created.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
The palaces become an artistic manifesto
Fra Angelico, Pinturicchio, Raphael and Michelangelo decorate chapels and apartments of sovereign pontiffs. This milestone sheds light on the "Vatican Museums" collection by favoring movement.
Archaeological museums are getting organized
The popes founded the Pio-Clementino, Chiaramonti, Egyptian, Etruscan and secular groups.
Pinacoteca and contemporary art
A dedicated building houses the painting while the modern collection opens the route to the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo's vault and Judgment Day form one of the most influential ensembles of Western painting. This trait guides a movement-centered reading of "Vatican Museums".
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Raphael's rooms
The School of Athens and other frescoes combine theology, philosophy, poetry and law in the pontifical palace.
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Antiques
Greek and Roman sculptures, Egypt, Etruria and ancient Christianity bear witness to several Mediterranean civilizations.
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Pinacoteca
Giotto, Fra Angelico, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Caravaggio offer a major panorama of Italian painting.
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Six readings specific to Vatican Museums
Precious annunciation, revelation of Christ, universal judgment and assembly of philosophers condense several centuries of thought into images.
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The elegance of international Gothic
However, architecture and refined gestures give the Annunciation a narrative preciousness before the full Renaissance.
For a precious interior. Reading of "Vatican Museums" by the movement.Raphael02
The light of the Transfiguration
The elevated Christ and the earthly group are united by a composition which opposes revelation and human distress.
For a spiritual workMichelangelo03
Humanity before judgment
Hundreds of bodies organize a monumental vision of salvation, fall and resurrection.
For a large formatAthens04
Philosophy put into space
Plato, Aristotle and ancient thinkers meet in ideal architecture based on perspective.
For a scholarly compositionPopes05
Collect to represent the world
The sovereign pontiffs have brought together antiquities, Christian art and testimonies of distant cultures over the centuries.
To understand the fundPalazzo06
The rooms are themselves works
Chapels, galleries and apartments impose a reading where decor, power and collection remain linked.
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Works to discover
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