The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several
The Vatican Museums as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican Museums from the Cortile della Pigna and the dome of St. Peter's
Tourists in the Pinacoteca Vaticana
The Braschi Antinous is in the Sala Rotonda (Round Hall) of Pio-Clementine Museum.
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII – commissioned the work, conceived as an altarpie
Vatican Museums
…Leonardo da Vinci: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness Raphael: Madonna of Foligno, Oddi Altarpiece and Transfiguration Titian: Frari Madonna…
Modello for the Transfiguration of Christ, pen and brown ink with white highlights on paper primed with dark brown wash, 40 x 27 cm, c. 1516, Albertina
Wedding procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810 (detail)
St. Matthew and another apostle, red chalk over stylus, 328 x 232 mm