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Thursday, 14 December 2006

Highlights of the Vaticam museums

Online tour through the 30 highlights of the Vaticam museums

Sistine Chapel
Events in the life of Moses (Botticelli)
Handing over of the keys (Perugino)
Creation of the sun, moon and planets (Michelangelo)
Creation of Adam (Michelangelo)
Original Sin and the Banishment from the Garden of Eden (Michelangelo)
The Last Judgement (Michelangelo)

Raphael's Rooms
Disputation over the Most Holy Sacrament (Raphael)
School of Athens (Raphael)
Encounter of Leo the Great with Attila (Raphael)
Liberation of St Peter (Raphael)
Fire in the Borgo (Raphael)
Battle of Constantine against Maxentius (Raphael)

Pinacoteca
Stefaneschi triptych (Giotto di Bondone e aiuti)
An angel playing the lute (Melozzo da Forlì )
The Transfiguration (Raffaello Sanzio)
St Jerome (Leonardo da Vinci)
Deposition from the Cross (Caravaggio)

Gregorian Egyptian Museum
Mummy in its case
Antinoo/Osiris
Statue of the priest Udja-Hor-res-ne
Colossal statue of queen Tuya

Gregorian Etruscan Museum
Fibula
Gold breastplate
Mars of Todi
Attic black-figure amphora
Attic red-figure hydria

Ethnological Missionary Museum
Quetzalcóatl, Pre-Colombian Mexican divinity
Bundu helmet mask of the Sande female society
Mask
Tu, main divinity of the pantheon of Mangareva island
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