Creative Musings

After walking though St. Peter's, I was a bit tired of the slow museum type walk, but we had to go to the Vatican Museum. Well, that one is pretty big, full of mostly religious art. I had planned to see the important pieces and skip out on the rest, but it turns out that it was designed "Ikea style" where you are funneled through in one direction until you have reached the very last thing, the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. We were all pretty exhausted after this one. I am not super interested in large amounts of religious art, but some of it was interesting. Especially the giant tapestries that look like paintings. Also, there was an entire long hallway covered in old style map paintings. For those of you who don't know, I love compass roses, so I probably took a good 30 photos of just those, and cut it down to 6 for my album. That's really all I have to say, so check out the album here.

Oh, to explain a few other photos, there are several photos of the same large painting called "Adam & Eve in the earthly paradise." Pretty much any animal you can think of is painted on that canvas, and I think it was painted in 1839. It is such a beautiful painting, so I am trying to show different sections of it and all the animals. There was also a big hall of sculptures that I found pretty interesting. And in order to exit, we had to walk down this huge spiral staircase with semi-dangerous steps, so there is an interesting caution sign. Last but not least, you're not allowed to take pictures of the Sistine Chapel, so I just had to absorb that one into my memory.

Labels: Vatican City, Vatican Museum