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Many a doctrine is like a window pane.

We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

-Khalil Gibran

 

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Sun rays through the windows of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Italy

texture by Kerstin frank art

 

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Excerpt from Wikipedia:

 

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.

 

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. In 2019, they were visited by 6,882,931 persons, which combined made them the third most visited art museum in the world.[6] They are one of the largest museums in the world.

 

There are 54 galleries, or sale, in total,[citation needed] with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum.

Early morning, before many people were about.

Taken in Vatican city (Italy)

Getting ready for Pope Francis

Pope Francis Sermon eh!

Let's do something else 😀

  

The last time I visited Rome was when there were no smartphones and I had to take a camera with me. That was a Canon powershot S30 back in 2002.

 

This year in April we went back and all I took was my iphone.

  

This was taken near the exit of the Vatican Museum.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramante_Staircase

 

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

 

The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Roman Catholic Church and the Papacy throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.

 

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. In 2019, they were visited by 6,882,931 persons, which combined made them the third most visited art museum in the world.[6] They are one of the largest museums in the world.

 

There are 54 galleries, or sale, in total,[citation needed] with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum.

some old file images of my son and i at the roof of st peter's basilica, vatican city.

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