Images tagged "vatican"
The dome of the St. Peter's Basilica seen from the terrace of the Vatican Museums, Vatican.
The Laocoön Group - one of the most famous ancient sculptures in the world. Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican Museums, Vatican.
The Belvedere Torso by the Athenian sculptor Apollonios (Ist century B.C) showing probably the Greek hero Ajax. Hall of the Muses in the Vatican Museums. Vatican.
Statue of Hera Barberini. Vatican Museums, Vatican.
The gilded bronze sculpture of the "Hercules of the Theatre of Pompey". Vatican Museums, Vatican.
The Gallery of Maps. Vatican Museums, Vatican.
Polish King John III Sobieski’s victory over the Turks in Vienna in 1683 - a picture painted by the Polish painter Jean Matejko displayed in the Sobieski Room in the Vatican Museums, Vatican.
Raphael's fresco of the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Raphael Rooms in Vatican Museums, Vatican.
The School of Athens - fresco by Raphael Santi. Apostolic Palace, Vatican.
The Creation of Adam - world famous fresco by Michelangelo Buonarotti around 1511–1512 on the ceiling the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.
The Last Judgment - world famous fresco by Michelangelo Buonarotti on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican.
View to the glass dome above the Bramante Staircase - a double helix staircase in the Vatican Museums in Vatican.
St. Peter's Square with St. Peter's Basilica and a fragment of the Bernini's collonade. Vatican.
Face of the embalmed body of pope John XXIII in the glass coffin kept under the altar of St Jerome in the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican.
The right foot of Arnolfo di Cambio’s sculpture of St. Peter (from around 1300) in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican is worn down from centuries of pilgrims kissing and rubbing it.
Arnolfo di Cambio’s sculpture of St. Peter (from around 1300) in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican is a highly venerated sculpture, which has feet worn down from centuries of pilgrims kissing and rubbing them.
Baldacchino over the main altar of St. Peters Basilica in Vatican by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is 30 metres tall and claimed to be the largest piece of bronze in the world.
Inside the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican - the most famous, holiest and most important church of the Christianity.
Group of pilgrims singing in front of the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican.
Saint Peter holding the keys to heaven in front of the St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican.
Raphael Loggias gallery in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg commissioned in the late 1780s as a reproduction of the loggias in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.