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Our Complete Vatican Tour is exactly what it says on the package - a complete tour of the Vatican Museums in just three hours. You'll skip long general-entry lines with priority entrance for a fully guided tour of the Vatican Museums. Visit the Raphael Rooms, Sistine Chapel and other top sights of the Vatican Museums. Then use a special door to skip directly from the Sistine Chapel to St. Peter's Basilica (again avoiding long lines!) Inside St. Peter's Basilica, you'll enjoy a fully guided tour. Small groups of 14 people or fewer, 5 star guides guaranteed. Book now at walksofitaly.com.
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Rome's Vatican & Sistine Chapel Tour: How to Avoid the Crowds
Imagine standing in the Sistine Chapel, with just a handful of people around. Or walking through the Vatican City Museums with not one other soul... It is possible!
On our trip to Rome, we wanted to see as much of Vatican City's highlights, without the thousands of tourists, long waits and jampacked rooms. I am so happy that we took this small group tour with LivItaly because we actually got to learn a lot and ENJOY our experience.
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THE SISTINE CHAPEL - MASTERPIECE PAINTINGS BY MICHELANGELO - VATICAN CITY - ROME
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City Rome depicts the Creation from Genesis in the Old Testament to Judgement day in the New Testament.Masterpiece paintings by Michelangelo.
One of the greatest treasures of all time. Inaugurated in 1483 by Pope Sisto 4th, the chapel was to represent all the majesty of the Roman Church. The most famous painters of the era were called to paint the walls, but the Sistine is well known for the symbol of one of the giants of art of all times, Michelangelo Buonarroti. He was 30 and was already one of the greatest artists of the time when Pope Julius II asked him to decorate the Chapel, the world's largest fresco, 12,917 sq. ft. ceiling, an almost impossible task. The Chapel was cold. Michelangelo ate and slept under the vault. Painting with his neck and spine bent back was excruciating, and the cold molded the fresco, He had to destroy most of his Noe's flood fresco and start over. Furious of the delays, Pope Julius II even beat Michelangelo with a stick. But the artist continued on, and at the end, after months of inhuman hard work he won. When it was opened to the public in 1483, the Sistine Chapel left the whole world in oar. He had not painted almost any subject drawn from the gospels, but instead had inspiration from the old testament. The artist exhorted the three-dimensionality of the figures and was a monumental and dramatic painting that tended as much as possible to the art that He preferred, the sculpture. Someone defined it as the sanctuary of the theology of the human body. The scenes from the Genesis are not limited to illustrations of the bible but provide an occasional bold interpretation. In the creation of Eve, woman does not originate from a rib but from Adam's own side. In the original sin Eve's guilt is represented in the crudity of her physical appearance. The serpent, in the form of a woman, almost as if anticipating its means. But Adam's creation is the most significant fresco of the entire Ceiling. Simply extraordinary is the invocation of the two indexes that are about to come into contact. God transmits the spark of life, his hands stretched one to the other without ever touching it, as if God created himself reflecting in the mirror of his youth in Adam's portrait. The Sistine Ceiling is an unprecedented visual impact. A triumph was to say the least. But Michelangelo could not enjoy it, even though only 4 years had past, the artist had grown older, his long work had bowed his back and affected his sight. But the fate of Michelangelo's Sistine were now re-united. It is 1534 and Pope Clement the 7th orders Michelangelo, now in his sixties, to return to the Chapel to fresco the alter wall. The old artist could not refuse. The largest surface ever frescoed by a single artist. An overwhelming work, radically different from any fresco ever seen before. He completely disregarded the powerful colors realized in the Ceiling. In their place the flat and uniform blue force and dark bottom of the pits, definitively abolishes all the peaceful prospects of the Ceiling. In the scene, the bodies float heavily in the air without the wings and even eliminated in the angels. The provocative nakedness of the figures is another proof of His inflexibility to bend to the demands of the pontiff. Sarcastic insights go on through the work. In the figure of Minosse, Michelangelo would portray the Pope's ceremonial priest, for criticizing the Fresco's nudity, in the empty skin exhibited by St. Bartholomew, a self-portrait of Michelangelo himself was scorned alive by criticism Of his enemies. But it is in shaping the ideas of the spiritual that the Last Judgement finds its true greatness, the terror of the day of judgment. Not even the saints and the angels are spared by the tremendous climate of fear. Our Lady trembles at the side of the mighty Christ who with His gesture, judges and condemns all 400 pictures taken without distinction from their nakedness. The inauguration brings enthusiasm as it does criticism, The enemies of Michelangelo recognized in his painting the influence of Lutheran heresy and asked for its destruction. What a fortune of the world, it has not been destroyed but lasted over the centuries along with the Ceiling. 2 absolute masterpieces, a true hymn to the perfection and beauty that man can achieve through art. No wonder they nicknamed Michelangelo, il Divino (The Divine One) He truly was.
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Sistine Chapel, St Peter’s Basilica & Vatican Museum at The Vatican City Express Tour | Travel Vlog
After having visiting endless cathedrals, churches across Europe, we were finally going to visit the home of the pope- The Vatican City. It was the last day in the Italian capital Rome and we had booked ourselves on The Vatican City Express Tour with The Roman Guy.
We took a metro to the Vatican and reached the Vatican museum entrance early in the morning. We met our guide who had taken care of our tickets and took us through the exclusive express entry gate.
Without spending too much time waiting in the lines, we were ready to explore the papal state of Vatican. Giving us an insight into the buildings, sculptures and key rooms of the Vatican, we were taken to the Sistine Chapel to gaze at the marvel.
We concluded our tour at the St. Peter’s Basilica and getting a further insight into the history of Catholic Christians, the lifestyle of the pope and the functioning of the Vatican.
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Tour the Sistine Chapel, Vatican and Colosseum in Rome, Italy in 1 Day with the Skip the Line Pass!
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Vatican Museums at Night with Dinner and Sistine Chapel
Experience at night at the Vatican Museums complete with dinner and the Sistine Chapel.
Arrive at the Vatican after most tourists have left, and see the museums and art take on a whole new life. Start your evening with a 3-course dinner with one of the best views in Rome: overlooking St. Peter's Basilica. Then skip the line into the Vatican and explore its many wonders, including artistic masterpieces by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Finally, top off your evening by exploring the Sistine Chapel without the usual daytime crowds.
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Sistine Chapel – Vatican City
The highlight of my Italian trip was seeing the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine chapel is one of the Vatican museums - There are Roman scriptures and beautiful, historic paintings that have been preserved for centuries in the chapel.
Italy ကို သြားခဲ႔တဲ႔ ခရီး မွာ ေၾကးမံုု အၾကိဳက္ဆံုး က ေတာ႔ Sistine Chapel. Sistine Chapel က Vatican ရဲ့ ျပတိုုက္ တစ္ခုု။ အဲဒီထဲမွာ ထိန္းသိမ္း ထားတဲ့ က်မ္းစာ ေတြ ၊ သမိုုင္းဝင္ ပန္းခ်ီေတြ ရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီဟာေတြကို ဒီဘုုရားေက်ာင္းမွာ ရာစုုနွစ္နဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္။
Highlight - အၾကိဳက္ဆံုး
Chapel = ဘုုရားေက်ာင္း ။
Preserve = ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္။
Scripture = က်မ္းစာ
Painting = ပန္းခ်ီ
When you’re at the Sistine Chapel, don’t forget to look up! There are beautiful paintings on the ceilings. You can see the great work of the famous artists, Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo.
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Sistine chapel ကိုု ေရာက္ရင္ ၊ အ ေပၚ ကိုု ေမာ္႔ ၾကည့္ဖို႔မေမ႔ပါနဲ႔။ မ်က္နာၾကက္ မွာ ပန္းခ်ီ ေတြ ရွိတယ္။ ထင္ရွားတဲ႔ အနုုပညာရွင္ Michaelangelo, Raphael, Donatello နဲ့ Leonardo Davinci တို႔ရဲ႕လက္ရာေျမာက္တဲ့ပန္းခ်ီေတြ အမ်ာႀကီးရွိတယ္။
Painting = ပန္းခ်ီ
Ceiling = မ်က္နာၾကက္
Look up = ေမာ္ၾကည့္
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There are many great paintings in the chapel. Two of the most extraordinary paintings are the Last Judgment and the Creation of Adam, both done by Michaelangelo.
Sistine ဘုုရားေက်ာင္းနံရံနဲ႔မ်က္ႏွာၾကက္မွာ အင္မတန္ ေက်ာ္ၾကားတဲ့ ပန္းခ်ီေတြ ရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီထဲက ပန္းခ်ီလက္ရာ နစ္ခုု ကေတာ႔ Last Judgment - ေနာက္ဆံုး တရားစီရင္ခ်က္ နဲ့ Adam ကို ဖန္ဆင္းျခင္း ။ ဒီ ပန္းခ်ီေတြ ရဲ့ လက္ရာရွင္ ကေတာ့ Michaelangelo ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
Judgment - တရားစီရင္ခ်က္
Last - ေနာက္ဆံုး
Creation - ဖန္တီးျခင္း ။ ဖန္ဆင္းျခင္း
Michaelangelo’s mural, also known as a fresco or a wall painting, the Last Judgment depicted the souls of human rising and falling according to their fate. The central figure is Christ, deciding the human race’s destiny. Some are saved and sent to heaven while others are doomed to hell.
Michaelangelo ရဲ့ နံရံေဆးေရးပန္းခ်ီ၊ နံရံေပၚမွာေရးဆြဲထားတာ ၊ လူေတြ ရဲ့ ၀ိဥာဥ္ေတြ အတက္အက်ရွိမယ္ ၊သူတိုု႔ ယံုၾကည္မႈအတိုုင္းပဲျဖစ္မယ္။ အလယ္ မွာ Jesus Christ -ေယရႈခရစ္ေတာ္က လူေတြရဲ့ ၾကမၼာကိုု ဆံုုးျဖတ္ေန တယ္။ ဘယ္သူက နတ္ျပည္ ၊ဒါမွမဟုုတ္ ငရဲကိုု သြားမယ္။ တစ္ခ်ုိက ကယ္တင္ခံရၿပီေတာ့ ေကာင္းကင္ဘံုကိုု သြားတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳကေတာ့ ငရဲ ျပည္ သြားတယ္။
Mural / fresco/ wall painting = နံရံေဆးေရးပန္းခ်ီ
fate = ယံုၾကည္မႈ
Heaven = ေကာင္းကင္ဘံု
Hell = ငရဲ
Italy Travel Guide: Inside the Vatican and Sistine Chapel
On this daily vlog, my wife and I spend the day in Rome, Italy touring the Vatican and Sistine Chapel, and Coliseum. We also drove around in a motorized golf cart!
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is one of Michelangelo's most famous works. Learn more about the history of this masterpiece. 1508-12, fresco (Vatican, Rome). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
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To commemorate the historic Visit of HH Pope Benedict XVI to England and Scotland in September, the Victoria and Albert Museum, in collaboration with the Vatican Museums will hold a unique exhibition titled:
RAPHAEL: CARTOONS AND TAPESTRIES FOR THE SISTINE CHAPEL
(8 September - 17 October 2010)
The V&A announces that four of the ten tapestries designed by Raphael for the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City will go on show in September 2010. These are the original tapestries from the only series designed by Raphael of which examples survive, and are comparable with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling as masterpieces of High Renaissance art. The tapestries will be displayed alongside the full-size designs for them -- the famous Raphael Cartoons, which have been on display in the V&A since 1865. This will be the first time that the designs and tapestries have been displayed together -- something Raphael himself never witnessed. The tapestries have not been shown before in the UK.
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Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, one of Christ's Apostles and also the first Pope. Saint Peter's tomb is supposedly directly below the high altar of the Basilica. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period, and there has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica, which would replace Old St. Peter's Basilica from the 4th century AD, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
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The Top Ten Things to See in the Vatican Museums
10. The Egyptian Gallery - The collection is so interesting because of the relationship between the Roman Empire and Egypt. As you might know, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar both had relations with Cleopatra. The collection occupies five rooms; plan to spend about 25 minutes in each.
9. Vatican Gardens - Take a stroll past innumerable grottoes, antiquities and world-class landscaping. Did you know there are 100 fountains in the Vatican Gardens? Unlike the Vatican Museums, the gardens are never crowded. One way to access the Vatican Gardens by booking a full-day tour of the Vatican Museums, Gardens and Castle Gandolfo with The Roman Guy.
8. Pinacoteca - The Pinacoteca (Picture Gallery) is one of the more modern sections of the Vatican Museums and is often overlooked. Get up close and personal to 460 works of art, painted by the likes of Caravaggio, Raphael, Titian, Leonardo, Guido Reni and Giotto.
7. Pinecone Courtyard - Named after the colossal bronze pinecone that once stood near the Pantheon next to the Temple of Isis, the Pinecone Courtyard was designed by Donato Bramante. From here catch an amazing view of St. Peter's Dome. Sometimes the guards let you spin the giant fractured sphere sculpture in the center of the spacious courtyard.
6. Pio-Clementino Museum - The Vatican's Pio-Clementino Museum is one of Rome's best collections of ancient Greek and Roman statues. In the octagonal Belvedere Courtyard, check out the Apollo Belvedere, Laocoön and His Sons and the Belvedere Torso. Then visit the biggest and oldest bathtubs you’ll ever see. Nero's Bathtub measures an incredible 25 ft in diameter. The red marble it is made from is so rare, there is no way to recreate it today.
5. The Vatican's Main Galleries - The Gallery of the Candelabra, Gallery of the Tapestries and our personal favorite, the Gallery of the Maps. The painted frescoes of maps reveal how Renaissance Italians saw themselves and their surroundings. Predating a unified Italy by nearly 300 years, the Gallery of Maps shows the length and breadth of the peninsula circa 1580.
4. St. Peter's Square - If you're not planning on visiting the Vatican Museums during your trip to Rome, at least come here. This is one of the most famous and breathtaking squares in the world and the largest, open area of Rome. The piazza is encased by two massive arms comprised of four rows of colonnades. As you walk up to the square, it looks like two massive arms welcoming you.
3. Raphael Rooms - Raphael was one of Rome's most famous Renaissance artists who encompassed all the ideals of a Renaissance man. He designed and frescoed multiple rooms connected to the Vatican Museums. Among other masterpieces, visit one of Raphael’s most famous works of art, The School of Athens.
2. St. Peter's Basilica - Don't miss this! St. Peter's Basilica is a massive church filled with artwork from some of the most celebrated artists in history. Enter through a special door and skip the lines to get the most opulent church in the world. Once inside, admire masterpieces that include the La Pieta, Il Baldacchino, La Pieta, the statue of St. Peter and much more.
1. Sistine Chapel - Since the chapel is inside the museums, entrance is included in your Vatican tour. Now that the chapel is restored, every detail and color used in the treasured work of art is visible. Only when you are inside, is it clear why it is one of the Sistine Chapel is one of the most celebrated works of art in Western civilization.
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