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Photo: Travel: Vatican City: Vatican Museums

Cortille Della Pigna with Eponymous Bronze Pinecone and the Egyptian Museum (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Rotating Sphere by Pomodoro in the Cortille Della Pigna (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Showing a Roman Finger in the Cortille Della Pigna (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Peeking Into the Clementine Gallery On the First Floor of the West Wing From Cortille Della Pigna (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Egyptian Lion in Front of the Egyptian Museum (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Bramante's Half Dome of the Egyptian Museum (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Canova's 'Perseus with the Head of Medusa' at Gabinetto Del Canova in the Octogonal Courtyard (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Bust of Sophocles From 4th Century BC at Museo Pio Clementino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Frescoed Ceiling of Sala Delle Muse in Museo Pio Clementino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Statues of Mythological and Historical Figures in Simonetti's Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Antinous 'Braschi', Hadrian's Lover in Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Detail of Battle with Centaurs From the Otricoli Mosaic in Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Colossal Gilded Bronze Hercules in Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Snake Statue Detail From Museo Pio Clementino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Marble Wolf Decorating a Sarcophagus at Museo Pio Clementino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) 'Laocoon and His Sons' by Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes in the Octogonal Courtyard (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Ceiling Painting in the Gallery of the Candelabra (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Spandrels Above the Arched Divisors in the Gallery of the Candelabra (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Allegory with St Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle On the Ceiling of the Galley of the Candelabra (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Roman Statue of an Old Man in the Gallery of the Candelabra (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Allegory of the Triumph of Religion On the Ceiling of the Gallery of the Candelabra (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Bust of Leo XIII in the Lunette of the Entrance to the Gallery of Tapestries (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Basrelief in a Recess of the Coffered Ceiling in the Galley of Tapestries (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Detail From the Tapestry 'The Slaughter of the Innocents' (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) In the Gallery of Maps (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Winged Dragon Crest of Gregory XIII in the Lunette Inside the Entrance to the Gallery of Maps (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Detail of Ceiling Fresco in the Chapel of Pius V (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Frescoed Dome of the Chapel of Pius V (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' with Ignudi and Four Prophets (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Michelangelo's 'The Separation of the Earth From the Waters' and 'The Creation of Plants and the Sun and the Moon' at the Sistine Chapel (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Michelangelo's 'Delphic Sibyl' at the Sistine Chapel (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Tourists Gawk in the Sistine Chapel at Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment' (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Triumph of the Christian Church Over Rival Religions in a Coffer On a Ceiling (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Detail From a Column Fresco in the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Bust of Athena with Painted Eyes at Museo Chiaramonti (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Sea Monster Detail From Otricoli Floor Mosaic in Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Colossal Statue of Meleager with Skin of Calydonian Boar in Sala Rotonda (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Laureti's 'The Triumph of Christian Religion' On the Ceiling in Sala Di Constantino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Frescoed Walls and Ceiling of Sala Di Constantino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Allegorical Figures Holding the Coat of Arms of Gregory XIII in Sala Di Constantino (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Raphael's 'The School of Athens' in the Stanze Di Raffaello at the Apostolic Palace (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Plato and Aristotle in Raphael's 'The School of Athens' in Stanza Della Segnatura (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Bramante As Euclid in Raphael's 'The School of Athens' in Stanza Della Segnatura (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Note Taker and Kibitzer in Raphael's 'The School of Athens' in Stanza Della Segnatura (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) 2841 The Muse of Poetry in Stanza Della Segnatura of the Raphael Rooms (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Socrates and Xenophon in Raphael's 'The School of Athens' in Stanza Della Segnatura (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Spying On Tourist Hordes Through a Window (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam' with Four Ignudi at the Sistine Chapel (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)
Michelangelo's 'The Last Judgment' at the Sistine Chapel (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Michelangelo's 'The Temptation and Fall of Adam and Eve' with Four Ignudi at the Sistine Chapel (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Spiral Staircase in the Vatican Museums (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Looking Up Into the Spiral Staircase at the Vatican Museums (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) Statues of Michelangelo and Raphael Over the Vatican Museums Entrance (Tuesday, September 5th 2006) The Fire Coated Bronze Gate 'La Porta Nuova' by Bonanotte at the Vatican Museums (Tuesday, September 5th 2006)