Vatican City, Italy (Enclave of Rome): Vatican Museums: Hall of Constantine: Ceiling
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Sheppard, Beth M.
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20-May-19
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Italy , Vatican City , Rome , Vatican Museums , Musei Vaticani , Art Museums , Sacred Art , Church Art , Greek Antiquities , Roman Antiquities , Paintings , Frescoes , Raphael , Hall of Constantine , Sala di Costantino , Ceilings , From Below Upwards , Optical Illusions , Triumph of Christian Religion , Tommaso Laureti , Christianity in Art , Heathenism 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. These photos were taken in the Hall of Constantine (Sala di Costantino) within the Raphael Rooms, which is 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 Hall of Constantine is the largest of the "Raphael Rooms." The photos show portions of the elaborate ceiling with a fresco titled "Triumph of Christian Religion" by Tommaso Laureti, painted 1582-1585. It depicts the triumph of Christianity over heathenism. Laureti was famous for his illusionistic paintings of architecture, as exemplied in this work. His principle of representation is known as "from below upwards" (in Italian: di sotto in su), which expands the viewer's particular space into the depicted space of the ceiling.
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