#vaticani

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Magnifica scala a chiocciola dei Musei Vaticani a Roma, Lazio, ITALIA

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Sistine Chapel

Rome, Italy

By Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

1481 A.D

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found him in the vatican he's important

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Jupiter Verospi in the Pio-Clementino Museum, Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome.

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Detail of Saint Sebastian in the Last Judgment, MIchelangelo Buonarroti, 1536-41

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Città del Vaticano | 7.14.2022

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Pinkydoll photographed by Logan Jackson and styled by Dara for Interview Magazine Fall 2023 VS Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus, Laocoön and His Sons, 1st century AD

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Antinous — Marble, 130s CE.

Come tramandato dalla storiografia del mondo antico, l'imperatore Adriano dopo la morte di Antinoo cercò di trovare in cielo un posto dove poter sistemare il suo amato; non tanto cercando fra gli allineamenti delle stelle una pseudo-figura che lo potesse ricordare, ma una zona dove, come credevano gli antichi, fossero concentrate tutte quelle essenze naturali per farlo apparire un Dio potente.

Le stelle dell'Aquila, secondo le antiche credenze, tendono ad avere la natura di Marte - Giove (Altair ne è un esempio) e diffondono energia; quelle del Capricorno tendono ad assomigliare a Venere - Giove associati all'amore.

Egli pensò che la zona intermedia alle due costellazioni fosse ideale per sistemare la figura di Antinoo. Così, quando assieme ai suoi astrologi vide una supernova tra Aquila e Capricorno, capì che questo era il punto giusto e che il destino aveva mandato un segno affinché Antinoo avesse la propria dimora dove sarebbe stato riconosciuto e venerato per l'eternità.

[artsandculture]

The School of Athens (1509-1511) 🎨 Raphael 🏛️ Musei Vaticani 📍 Vatican City

The most famous philosophers of ancient times move within an imposing Renaissance architecture which is inspired by Bramante's project for the renewal of the early Christian basilica of St Peter. Some of these are easily recognizable. In the centre Plato points upwards with a finger and holds his book Timeus in his hand, flanked by Aristotle with Ethics; Pythagoras is shown in the foreground intent on explaining the diatesseron. Diogenes is lying on the stairs with a dish, while the pessimist philosopher, Heracleitus, a portrait of Michelangelo, is leaning against a block of marble, writing on a sheet of paper. Michelangelo was in those years executing the paintings in the nearby Sistine Chapel. On the right we see Euclid, who is teaching geometry to his pupils, Zoroaster holding the heavenly sphere and Ptolemy holding the earthly sphere. The personage on the extreme right with the black beret is a self-portrait of Raphael.

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Hall of maps

Musei Vaticani

Rome, Italy

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Also found in the Vatican: Everybody hates this bull

Especially this guy.

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Triumph of Christianity | Triumph of The Cross fresco (detail) Sala di Costantino, Vatican Palace.

by Tommaso Laureti

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The Parnassus, Raffaello Sanzio, 1509-11

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Italian Adventure travelogue paintings!

02: The River Tiber, Rome. Well, an attempt at it, anyway.

03: The Vatican Museums, Vatican City. Not quite a plein air painting; I sketched it on location, but painted it afterwards.

04: Pinacoteca Vaticani, Vatican City. From here on, all of my travelogue paintings were done entirely after the fact, working from the photos I took in each location.

[conformi]

Charles M. Schulz, Linus van Pelt, 1952 VS Hermes Pio-Clementino | Belvedere Antinous, second century AD (copy of a bronze by Praxiteles)