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Roma & Il Vaticano
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2. Galleria Borghese
• Bernini
• Caravaggio
• Raphael
Santa Maria Della Vittoria
• Bernini’s St. Theresa in Ecstasy
St. Peter’s Basilica
• Bernini’s Baldacchino
• Bernini’s Cathedra Petri & Gloria
• Michelangelo’s Pieta
The Vatican Museum
• Raphael’s School of Athens
• Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
• Caravaggio’s Entombment
• Plus MUCH MORE…
Coliseum
Palatine Museum
• Michelangelo Exhibition, etc.
Pantheon
Roman Forum
Trajan’s Column
Crypt of the Capuchini
Piazza Navona
Trevi Fountain
Spanish Steps
San Carlo alle Quatro Fontane
San Luigi dei Francesi
• Caravaggio’s Matthews
Piazza Del Popolo
Santa Maria in Trastevere
Frida Kahlo at Scuderie del
Quirinale
Andy Warhol at Palazzo Cipolla
Ostia Antica
Castel Sant’Angelo
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Roma & Il Vaticano
24. Il Vaticano
Works in the Vatican museums
• Several paintings by Caravaggio including the majestic Entombment (1602–1603)
• Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of St. Jerome in the Wilderness;
• Works by painters Fra Angelico, Giotto, Raphael, Nicolas Poussin, and Titian;
• The Raphael Rooms with many works by Raphael and his workshop, including the
masterpiece The School of Athens
• Other Raphael masterpieces including "The Transfiguration".
• The Niccoline Chapel
• The Sistine Chapel, including the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
• The Gallery of Maps: topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar
Ignazio Danti of Perugia, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585). It remains the
world's largest pictorial geographical study.
• The frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment built for Pope Alexander VI (Borgia).
29. 1: Zeno of Citium
2: Epicurus Possibly, the image of
two philosophers, who were
typically shown in pairs during the
Renaissance: Heraclitus, the
"weeping" philosopher, and
Democritus, the "laughing"
philosopher.
3: unknown (believed to be
Raphael)
4: Boethius or Anaximander or
Empedocles?
5: Averroes
6: Pythagoras
7: Alcibiades or Alexander the
Great?
8: Antisthenes or Xenophon or
Timon?
9: Raphael, Fornarina as a
personification of Love or
Francesco Maria della Rovere?
10: Aeschines or Xenophon?
11: Parmenides? (Leonardo da
Vinci)
12: Socrates
13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo)
14: Plato(Leonardo da Vinci)
(Archimedes)
15: Aristotle (Giuliano da
Sangallo)
16: Diogenes of Sinope
17: Plotinus (Donatello?)
18: Euclid or Archimedes with
students (Bramante?)
19: Strabo or Zoroaster?
(Baldassare Castiglione)
20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael)
21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma,
Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)
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Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Created: 1508-1512
Michelangelo painted the
Sistine Chapel ceiling
between 1508 and 1512,
under the patronage of Pope
Julius II.
32. “Without having
seen the Sistine
Chapel one can
form no
appreciable idea
of what one man
is capable of
achieving.”
—Johann Wolfgang Goethe
33. Il Vaticano
Michelangelo
The Last Judgment
Created: 1535-1541
In a different climate
after the Sack of
Rome, he returned
and between 1535
and 1541, painted
The Last Judgment
for Popes Clement VII
and Paul III.
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Michelangelo
The Last Judgment
Created: 1535-1541
Famously, the papal master of ceremonies, Biagio da
Cesena, said (in Vasari’s recount) of The Last Judgment
“that it was a very disgraceful thing to have made in so
honorable a place all those nude figures showing their
nakedness so shamelessly, and that it was a work not for
the chapel of a Pope, but for a brothel or tavern.”
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Michelangelo
The Last Judgment
Created: 1535-1541
The genitalia in the fresco were later covered by
the artist Daniele da Volterra, whom history
remembers by the derogatory nickname "Il
Braghettone" ("the breeches-painter").
50. Il Vaticano
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Created: 1535-1541
The image of God in the
act of Creation was
painted in a single day, and
reflects Michelangelo
himself in the act of
creating the ceiling.
Michelangelo's illustration
to his poem shows him
painting God.
51. Il Vaticano
Castel Sant’Angelo
Construction Started: 135 AD
The Mausoleum of Hadrian,
usually known as Castel
Sant'Angelo, is a towering
cylindrical building in Parco
Adriano, Rome.
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Castel Sant’Angelo
Construction: 123 AD - 139 AD
It was initially commissioned by
the Roman Emperor Hadrian as
a mausoleum for himself and
his family.
The building was later used by
the popes as a fortress and
castle, and is now a museum.
The Castel was once the tallest
building in Rome.
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In 1605, Cardinal Scipione
Borghese, nephew of Pope
Paul V and patron of
Bernini, began turning this
former vineyard into the
most extensive gardens
built in Rome since
Antiquity.
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Pantheon
118-128 CE
Almost two thousand
years after it was built,
the Pantheon's dome is
still the world's largest
unreinforced concrete
dome.
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The Capitoline Museums
The Capitoline Museums
are a group of art and
archeological museums in
Piazza del Campidoglio, on
top of the Capitoline Hill in
Rome, Italy.
The historic seats of the
museums are Palazzo dei
Conservatori and Palazzo
Nuovo, facing on the central
trapezoidal piazza in a plan
conceived by Michelangelo
in 1536 and executed over a
period of more than 400
years.
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The Capitoline Museums
It is a copy, the original
being housed on-site in the
Capitoline museum. Many
Roman statues were
destroyed on the orders of
Christian Church authorities
in the Middle Ages; this
statue was preserved in the
erroneous belief that it
depicted the Emperor
Constantine, who made
Christianity the official state
religion of the Roman
empire.
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Trajan’s Column
113 AD
A continuous frieze winds up
around the shaft from base
to capital. The relief portrays
Trajan's two victorious
military campaigns against
the Dacians; the lower half
illustrating the first, and the
top half illustrating the
second.
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Trajan’s Column
113 AD
A continuous frieze winds up
around the shaft from base
to capital. The relief portrays
Trajan's two victorious
military campaigns against
the Dacians; the lower half
illustrating the first, and the
top half illustrating the
second.
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Piazza Navona is a city
square built on the site
of the Stadium of
Domitian, built in 1st
century AD, and
follows the form of the
open space of the
stadium.
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Piazza Navona is a city
square built on the site
of the Stadium of
Domitian, built in 1st
century AD, and
follows the form of the
open space of the
stadium.
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Piazza Navona is a city
square built on the site
of the Stadium of
Domitian, built in 1st
century AD, and
follows the form of the
open space of the
stadium.
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Piazza del Popolo
For centuries, the Piazza del
Popolo was a place for
public executions, the last of
which took place in 1826.
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Spanish Steps
The Spanish Steps are a set of steps climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di
Spagna at the base, and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, with Trinità dei Monti church at
the top.
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
The first sanctuary was built
in 221 and 227 by Pope
Callixtus I and later
completed by Pope Julius I.
The basic floor plan and wall
structure of the church date
back to the 340s.
Completed in 1143.
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pietro Cavallini
Mosaic of the Annunciation
1291
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Crypt of the Capuchin Monks
The Capuchin Crypt is a small
space comprising several tiny
chapels located beneath the
church of Santa Maria della
Concezione dei Cappuccini on
the Via Veneto near Piazza
Barberini in Rome, Italy.
It contains the skeletal remains
of 3,700 bodies believed to be
Capuchin friars.
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Frida Kahlo exhibition at
Scuderie del Quirinale
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait Wearing a Velvet Dress
1926
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Frida Kahlo exhibition at
Scuderie del Quirinale
Frida Kahlo
Selfportrait on the Bed or Me
and My Doll
1937
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Frida Kahlo exhibition at
Scuderie del Quirinale
Frida Kahlo
The Love Embrace of the
Universe, the Earth (Mexico),
Diego, Me and Señor Xólotl
1937
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Frida Kahlo exhibition at
Scuderie del Quirinale
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait as Tehuana or
Diego in My Mind or Thinking
of Diego
1937
