This is the famous Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museum. I posted a different image some weeks back that reveals the double-helix more clearly; here, I wanted to focus only on the concentric curves of the staircase and the way those curves play against the straight lines of the steps.

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Vatican Museums

Walking through the Vatican Museums is like moving within a living manuscript of human history—delicate, radiant, and endlessly unfolding, forever in the quiet process of becoming. Vatican Museums , April 2006,

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... un des endroits que j'ai préféré au musée du Vatican ...

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... one of the place I prefered when I was at the Vatican's museum...

My favorite staircase can be found at the exit of the Vatican Museum (Musei Vaticani) in Vatican City. This is another one of my photos of the staircase from my visit to Italy a few years ago. I am looking forward to seeing this magnificent staircase again soon.

In the late 1920s Pope Pius XI commissioned sculptor Maraini to create this work of art and the and the “Marinelli” foundry with the casting of the bronze rail.

i love this one..

some info from the web:

The Vatican Museum is the largest museum complex in the world with over 1400 rooms. The Vatican Museum includes the museum, galleries with 3,000 years of art, the Sistine Chapel, and parts of the papal palace. There is an astonishing amount of art, including a room of works by Raphael. The Pinacoteca Vaticana is probably Rome's best picture gallery with many Renaissance works. One of the most impressive halls is the Hall of Maps, with murals of old maps of the papal lands.

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.

..outside in the courtyard before our tour began.

Dark eye tango

Clichê do museu do vaticano, mas impossível não fazer, é irresistível.

Taken in Vatican city (Italy)

Vatican Museum, Rome

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.

In the Vatican Museums

Vatican Museum, Rome

Vatican Museum, Rome

Vatican Museum, Rome

Vatican Museum

Ringrazio ghostbones e ground*floor per le magnifiche textures

Thanks to ghostbones and ground*floor per the wonderful textures

Vatican Museum, Rome

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Taken in Vaticancity.

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Vatican Museum, Rome

Vatican Museum

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