Vatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Raphael Rooms: Room of Heliodorus: Ceiling

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Sheppard, Beth M.

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May 20, 2017

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Italy , Vatican City , Rome , Vatican Museums , Musei Vaticani , Art Museums , Sacred Art , Church Art , Paintings , Frescoes , Raphael , Raffaello Sanzio , Raphael and Workshop , Raphael Rooms , Stanze , Room of Heliodorus , Old Testament in Art , God in Art , Jacob in Art , Noah in Art , Abraham in Art , Moses in Art , High Renaissance Art , Italian High Renaissance Art , Painted Ceilings , Meeting of Leo the Great with Attila , Leo the Great in Art , Pope Leo I in Art , Attila the Hun in Art , Attila in Art , Good and Evil in Art , Popes in Art

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Multiple photos are associated with this record. Please click the links to view all of the items in the series.The images are of paintings (frescoes) within the Room of Heliodorus, which is one of four Raphael Rooms that are part of the Vatican Museums. These are public museums that display about 20,000 of 70K works collected by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries. The museums were founded by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Only the Louvre in France receives more annual visitors than the Vatican Museums. The museums consist of 24 galleries, with the Sistine Chapel being the last room visited. The Raphael Rooms (known in Italian as the Stanze), which precede the Sistine Chapel on a tour of the Vatican Museums, were the private chambers of several popes. The paintings in the Rooms, designed by the master but completed over 15 years (1508-1524) primarily by Raphael's pupils, depict historic events that are framed in exuberant High Renaissance style. The photos are images of signage and the ceiling frescoes, which depict four Old Testament scenes: God (in a golden cloud) appearing in Jacob's dream; God appearing to Noah after the flood, with Noah's wife leaving the ark with their son; Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac; and God commanding Moses to lead His people out of Egypt. One of the photos in this group also shows a good view of "The Meeting of Leo the Great with Attila" on a wall below the ceiling. This painting is described in another set of photos in this repository collection.

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