The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. It’s one of the triumphs of Renaissance painting. The chapel’s walls were frescoed by Raphael, Bernini, and Sandro Botticelli. And then, between 1508 and 1512, Michelangelo painted the chapel ceiling, covering some 12,000 square feet, decorating it with 300 figures from nine Book of Genesis scenes. Thanks in part to Villanova University, you can now take a virtual, panoramic tour of the Chapel. Using buttons in the lower left screen, you can move around the room and zoom in on the paintings, including those on the ceiling. It’s been a while since I visited the Vatican. But, from what I remember, this virtual tour gives you a closer look than the average visitor gets.
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I put up a free 12min last judgment tour on our website, http://www.romavita.com that you can listen to while looking at this. Thank you for the panoramic
I will also have some free material on the ceiling posted in early August.
wo amazing painting
hi i found a lint to a vitual tour.which you can zoom and see the chapel. here is the link
http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
Just got back from Roma, Italy and saw the wonders of St. Pietro’s Basilica, but ran out of time and did not see the Sistene Chapel. Thanks for the virtual tour. Still, there’s nothing like BEING there. The guards outside the Vatican look pretty ominous and I guess that’s as it should be since terrorist threats are quite REAL at the Vatican.