cardinal walks them through the different rooms:
- Room I. Reperti epigrafici (Epigraphic Remains arranged from left to right in chronological order from the Old Kingdom, highlights the Stele of Queen Hatshepsut and the Vatican Naoforo).
- Room II. Costumi funerari dell´antico Egitto (Ancient Egyptian Funeral Costumes is a truly unique room, which exhibits protected funeral costumes with their respective mummies that occupy the center of the room, in a representation of the venerated “house of eternity”).
- Room III. Ricostrumizione del Serapeo del Canopo di Villa Adriana a Tripoli (Reconstruction of the Serapeum del Canopus de Villa Adriana in Tripoli, contains frescoes with exotic motifs, the statues of Osiris-Apis and Osiris-Antinoo stand out).
- Room IV. L’Egitto e Roma (in this room you can see a collection of statues from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd centuries of Roman production but with great Egyptian influence, such as the statue of the God Anubis).
- Room V. Statuario (it is the well-known Chamber of the Hemicycle that contains a wide estuary from the excavations carried out in Rome and its surroundings, the most outstanding being the Colossus of Ptolemy II and Arsione II).
- Room VI. The Collezione Carlo Grassi (Carlo Grassi Collection is a set of bronze statues from the 4th to the 10th centuries BC, as well as the famous Book of the Dead).
- Room VII. Alesandria e Palmira (Alejandria and Palmira is a room that, as its name indicates, brings together remains from the Hellenistic and Roman times of these two cities).
- Room VIII. Antichita del Vicino Oriente Antico (Antiquities of the Ancient Near East here the protagonists are the combat weapons and other defense utensils from Syria and Mesopotamia).
- Room IX. Rilieve e iscrizioni dei palazzi assiri (Reliefs and inscriptions of the Assyrian palaces is divided into four sections each dedicated to an Assyrian sovereign, who at one time also ruled Egypt).
He comments that the interest of the popes in the works of Egypt was related to the fundamental role attributed to this country with the Holy Scriptures in the history of salvation.
(Ranging from the time when Joseph and his brothers, sons of Jacob, arrived in Egypt, the rebellion of Moses and his disputes with Pharaoh, to the stay of Jesus after his birth in Egypt and finally the exile of the disciples of Jesus after the Roman persecution, which caused them to inhabit the entire vast territory of the Nile to Aswan, witness to this are the Coptic or Gnostic manuscripts, found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt and as a consequence all the Coptic churches that are still in Egypt today) .
The rooms are divided by a semicircle open to the terrace that has numerous sculptures as you may have seen, says the cardinal.
Gregorian Etruscan Museum, tells you that the museum is in the old Palace of the Belvedere of Pope Innocent VIII and is adorned with frescoes by Barocci and Zuccari.
The gold jewel (pectoral) and the bronze throne, bed and chariot attached to the tomb of Regolini-Galassi in Cerveteri (650 BC) stand out.
Museo Pio-Clementino was the first Vatican Museum and continues to be one of the most important in the Museum.
The sculpture of Laocoon and his son’s stands out, a Roman copy of the 1st century of a Greek original. She says it is one of her favorites, for its expressiveness and sense of movement.
Apollo of Belvedere, Also Roman copy of the 2nd century. Belvedere Torso one of the best known works in the Vatican Museums and the sarcophagus of Helena from Constantinople, 4th century.
They follow the Chiaramonti Museum with more than 1000 pieces, Roman sculptures and one of the most important collections of Roman portraits, sculptures of gods and funerary pieces.
The Lapidary Gallery, with 3000 pieces.
Braccio New Museum, a very illuminated gallery in which the sculpture of Nilo stands out.
Following the Roman sculptures, we cross a long corridor that begins in the Sala de la Biga, where a monumental marble figure of a chariot drawn by two horses stands out, made in the 1st century AD.
Continue through the Gallery of the Chandeliers, its name is because it contains huge marble chandeliers that combined with huge columns defining this elegant room.
We continue through the Gallery of Tapestries (Galleria degli Arazzi), where you can see flamingos woven by Raphael’s disciples in 1523.
The Gallery of Cartographic Maps, where 40 frescoes of maps of the possessions of the church from the time of Pope Gregory XIII in 1580, its very beautiful ceiling recall the Opera Garnier in France or the Palace of Versailles itself.
The Raphael Rooms were the rooms chosen by Pope Julius II, masterfully decorated. It contains several rooms:
- Room of Constantine, in honor of the Emperor, his baptism and battles.
- Sala de Heliodoro, a political representation of historical moments from the Old Testament to medieval times, such as the Bolsena mass or the liberation of Saint Peter.
- Hall of Seal or Signatura, here are the most important frescoes by Rafael. They intend to present the maximum categories of the human spirit: Truth, Good and Beauty. The supernatural Truth is embodied in the Dispute of the Blessed Sacrament and the rational Truth in the School of Athens. The Good is expressed in The Cardinal and Theological Virtues and the Law. For its part, Beauty is seen in Parnassus with Apollo and the Muses.
Among all the works, The School of Athens stands out, for many his masterpiece.
You can see the most famous philosophers of antiquity. In the center, finger pointing up, is Plato and next to him Aristotle. We see Pythagoras, Diogenes on the steps Heraclitus writing, Zoroaster with a celestial globe and Ptolemy with the earth. The most curious thing Thomas says is some philosophers have the face of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Bracamonte and Raphael takes a self-portrait on the right with the cap.
They all gaze at the painting very carefully.
- The Borgo Fire Room, painted in the times of Pope Leo X, the jars illustrate experiences of the papacy such as the Coronation of Charlemagne, Justification of Leo III, Burning of the Borgo and Battles of Ostia.
Capilla Nicolina owes its name to Pope Nicolas V, with paintings by Fran Angelico, probably his best work and the pinnacle of “Christian humanism”.
Borgia Apartments, these are the rooms that Pope Alexander VI Borgia used and that were decorated by Pintericchio.
In the chambers and other 55 rooms that go to the Sistine Chapel, with a large Collection of Contemporary Art inaugurated in 1973 by Pope Paul VI.
More than 800 works such as:
- The Annunciation of Dali
- The Pieta of Vangh
- The Viergen and the Elephant by Matisse
- Christ and the painter Chagall.
Cardinal Botticelli plays distracted and retires after being called by an aide. Anne enters the Sistine Chapel.
The Sistine Chapel is a spectacular room, with included frescoes by Michelangelo difficult to explain in words. It was Pope Julius II who hired the great artist Michelangelo Bounarrotti to paint The Last Judgment on the High Altar.
What stands out most from the paintings across the ceiling are the nine stories from Genesis, Old Testament Salvation scenes, prophets and ancestors of Jesus.
Wonderful, unique, perfect,