The Vatican museum

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Vatican Museum Stairs

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. As of November 2006, it was visited by more than 4,000,000 people for the year.

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Vatican Going Up, Vatican museum, Rome, Italy

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Vatican Museums, Ceiling, Rome, Italy

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Vatican Museum, Hall. Rome Italy

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This bronze sculpture is called Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera Con Sfera) and it
measures four meters in diameter. It was created by artist Arnaldo Pomodoro in
1990 for the Vatican Museums. Pomodoro’s specialty is the casting of gigantic
columns and/or globes. In this magnificent sculpture, the fractured surface of
the outer sphere reveals a very complex inner sphere that represents the harsh
difficulties that the modern world finds itself in at the end of the second
millennium.

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A painted glass widow in the Vatican Museum. Rome Italy.

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An inner courtyard in the Vatican Museum. Rome, Italy

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Vatican Museums – Raphael Rooms, Room of The Segnatura,

Disputation over the Most Holy Sacrament, Rome, Italy

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The Vatican museum, Rome Italy

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