The second day we were there we went into Vatican City. It was beautiful!! But there was so much to see, in a way it was overwhelming in just a day, I could have spent a week in Vatican sketching and looking at each piece of art. Our main goal was to see the Sistine Chapel but as we were making our way there, we realized just how much there was to see in the museum!
Alright, this was taken in Florence actually, but just found it! This is one of the cutest pictures of me and Elizabeth I think... I don't have any idea what I was looking at though (Look at how much taller I am than her haha!)
As long a we kept our flash off, we were allowed to take pictures in the Vatican museum which was great, but again pretty strange as I've said in past posts that Italy is pretty strict about photography in their museums.
I really can't believe how many pieces of art I recognized here because of Craig Farmer's art history and AP art history from highschool. I kept stopping in front of certain pieces and smiling because it would immediately come back to mind what he told us about them!
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| He hadn't told us about this one, but I simply really enjoyed the painting :) |
The courtyard in the middle of the museum. It was crazy how large it was! So many rooms to explore and things to see! The first thing we saw was a hall of sculptures.
The most exciting thing I saw in the hall was a sculpture of Ganymede!!! I adore Ganymede... My favorite sculpture of all time is in the Minneapolis Institute of art simply titled Ganymede and the Eagle. (Here is the link if you'd like to check it out!) So I was pretty thrilled to see a sculpture of him in Vatican!
I really admire sculptors and sculptures so it was a lot of fun to see a whole hallway filled with beautiful casts and figures!! It's something I know I could never create in my life, I don't have the technique or mind to do so, so I take to admiring from afar and drawing the beautiful figures instead!
Each room was gorgeous and so different from one to the next!
This room is very very important! It was blocked off which I was SO bummed about. I'm glad I got a picture through the gated off entrance though (a security guard was giving me some strange looks because of how excited I was!) I'm worried most people pass by this room because it is closed off but there is one incredible sculpture there that should have much more recognition.
Every year at Perpich, the AP Art History kids have to take the AP test at the end of the year. Craig Farmer dresses up as a work of art each year to cheer us on. For my year he dressed up as this sculpture, donning a toga and the disk and posed as the disk thrower at every encounter we had with him in he halls! I was so excited t see it there! I had no idea it was in the Vatican!
The ceilings in every room were painted wonderfully... I have so many pictures of ceilings on my laptop now, but they were so gorgeous it was impossible not to take several pictures of each one! I was more inclined to look up to the ceiling than the walls!
This was by far my favorite room! A room filled with intricate maps painted on the walls all the way down the hallway. It was gorgeous and I was so distracted in that hallway, wanting to memorize each of the map. Just after this hallway was the Sistine Chapel. We weren't allowed to take pictures there but it was beautiful. I had no idea just how many panels were painted in the chapel!
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