Vatican Museum, including Sistine Chapel

The Vatican Museum was full of mosaic's on the floor.  The deep blue stone is blue lapis and green is jade.
 They were all very beautiful

This is an ancient tomb.  Inside it is like a big bathtub, with a built up "pillow" area on one end.

There are so many statues that I took pictures of.  It is impossible to post all the pictures on this blog.



You could not take pictures inside the Sistine Chapel.  This is a description of the last judgment area of the ceiling. It actually depicts from the creation of Adam to the last judgement.  It is breath taking.  I can't even imagine Michelangelo laying on his back painting it.  It is huge!  They actually restored the ceiling in 1980, it was actually just cleaned with special cleaner and paper.  There was one small square area that was not restored so that you could see how it looked prior to the restoration.  It was very dark, due to the smoke stains from the candle light, I mean let's face it, it was painted between 1508 and 1512, that is a long time ago!



The ceiling of one of the beautiful rooms in the museum.

Isn't this beautiful?  It looks like sculptures or carvings in the ceiling doesn't it?  I was not, it was actually painted. 
The entire ceiling of this room was covered with paintings like this.

Some more beautiful ceilings in the museum.

This was out on a patio overlooking the Vatican Gardens.



A the view looking up and down a beautiful spiral stairway the leads the way out of the museum.