Rome

Spanish Steps

Paizza di Spagan and Fontana della Barcaccia in the foreground and Trinita dei Monti church at the top

Disney in Rome

Goofy Statue

The Trevi Fountain

The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8.1 mi) from the city. (This scene is presented on the present fountain's façade.) However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its length some 22 km (14 mi). The Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of Agrippa. It served Rome for more than 400 years.[

Michelangelo's Cordonata

Michelangelo devised a monumental wide-ramped stair (the cordonata), gradually ascending the hill to reach the high piazza, so that the Campidoglio resolutely turned its back on the Roman Forum that it had once commanded. It was built to be wide enough for horse riders to ascend the hill without dismounting.

Crepuscular Rays (sunbeams) shining on Bernini's Baldacchino in St. Peters Basillica

Bernini's first work at St. Peter's was to design the baldacchino, a pavilion-like structure 30 metres (98 ft) tall and claimed to be the largest piece of bronze in the world, which stands beneath the dome and above the altar.

St Peter's Basilica Altar with Bernini's baldacchino and Cathedra Petri

Bernini's first work at St. Peter's was to design the baldacchino, a pavilion-like structure 30 metres (98 ft) tall and claimed to be the largest piece of bronze in the world, which stands beneath the dome and above the altar. Its design is based on the ciborium, of which there are many in the churches of Rome, serving to create a sort of holy space above and around the table on which the Sacrament is laid for the Eucharist and emphasizing the significance of this ritual.

Michelangelo's Pieta

This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed (1498-1499)

Vatican Museum Bramante Staircase

Fire in the Borgo

Raphael's Rooms Vatican Museum

Raphal's The School of Athens

Raphal Rooms in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican was painted by the Italian Renaissance artist between 1509 and 1511. Vatican Museum

Disputation of the Most Holy Sacrament

Raphael's Rooms Vatican Museum

Enounter Between Leo the Great and Attila

Fresco in one of the Vatican Museum Raphael Rooms

Map of Duchy of Parma and Piacenza

Map in the Vatican Museum Gallery of Maps

The Gallery of Maps

Vatican Museum.

Laocoon

In his Natural History, the classical author Pliny the Elder (ca. 23–79 AD) describes the Laocoön as a work that is “to be preferred to all other works of painting and sculpture.” Thought to have been made after a Greek bronze original, the group depicts the gruesome death of the Trojan priest Laocoön after warning his fellow citizens of the deception involving the Trojan Horse.

Egyptian Mummy

Woman died three millennia ago. Vatican Museum.

Caravaggio's The Entombment of Christ

Vatican Museum

St. Jerome in Wilderness

Leonardo da Vinci circa 1480 Vatican Museum.

Transfiguration

Raphael circa 1518-1520 Vatican Museum.

Stefaneschi Altarpiece

The Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone completed this richly gilded double-sided work between 1320 and 1330. It had long been thought to have been made for the main altar of the church; more recent research suggests that it was placed on the "canon's altar", located in the nave, just to the left of the huge arched opening into the transept. The altar was freestanding, and the altarpiece is painted on both sides so it could be seen by the congregation from the front and the canons of the church from the back.

Mother and Child Stained Glass

Vatican Museum

Main Door end of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

The end of the Sistine Chapel opposite the main altar with the main doors.

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement was painted by Michelangelo from 1535 to 1541. The painting depicts the second coming of Christ on the Day of Judgment as described in the Revelation of John, Chapter 20. High on the wall is the heroic figure of Christ, with the saints clustered in groups around him. At the bottom left of the painting the dead are raised from their graves and ascend to be judged. To the right are those who are assigned to Hell and are dragged down by demons. The dark patches in both upper corners were left in place after the 1984-1994 cleaning.

The Creation of Adam

The most famous part of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco painted between 1508-1512. This is panel 4 of 9 on the central celing.

Main Door end of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known. This image includes the central main ceiling panels 4-9.