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Another shot of the perhaps most photographed part of St Peter in Rome. You can never take too many.
(My others: www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/12840127134
www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/7545471788
www.flickr.com/photos/dameboudicca/52432073400
All from slightly different angles, at least)
In Italian the church is known as Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano. This late Renaissance church was begun in 1506 and not completed until more than a hundred years later, in 1626 - when the Baroque style had come which also influenced the building.
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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The Vatican Museum Courtyard, with its stunning architecture and open space, really makes for a unique and breathtaking view, especially with the iconic Saint Peter's Basilica in the background.
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.
The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is an Italian Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom". (2/25/2019)
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.
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.