Musei Vaticani: High-Quality Art

The Vatican Museum (the Musei Vaticani in Italian) is made up of the public sculpture and art museums in the whole Vatican City.  These museums make works belonging to the Roman Catholic Church available. In the 16th century, Pope Julius II was the one who founded these museums.  It is amazing that the Sistine Chapel is part of the visitors when visiting the great Vatican Museums.  Obviously, this constitutes one of the most significant attractions due to the worldwide superiority of the Vatican and the Catholic Church.

This wide-ranging group of museums making the Musei Vaticani up comprises the Pinacoteca Vaticana, Contemporary art museum and Sculpture museums.  Regarding the Pinacoteca Vaticana, the museum boasts artworks by Raphael, Michelangelo and Fra Angelico.  Within the Sculpture museums, you may find the Museo Pio-Clementino, which was created in 1771 and offers six different galleries; the Museo Chiaramonti, housing the Galeria Lapidaria and different statues such as The River Nile; the Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, founded in 1836 and the Museo Gregoriano Egipcio, including the Grassi Collection and the famed Book of the Dead.

In addition, some of the most remarkable and outstanding works in the Vatican museums, you may find the marvelous Entombment by Caravaggio and the Saint Jerome’s portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, the Sistine Chapel and the immense collection of Raphael, comprising The School of Athens. Besides these, other incredible works of well-known painters around the world are there; for instance, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Nicolas Poussin and Titian.  Thus, you can make sure that, when coming to admire the Vatican museums, you will be face to face to the best art of the world.  Are you prepared?