Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Italy Part 18: Vatican City - Sculptures

The Vatican museums have so many priceless works of art: tapestries, sculptures, paintings, murals.... It really is overwhelming! Here are just a few of the sculptures.

This is a sculpture of Augustus' head.
For perspective on the size, click here!
This sculpture is located outside, in the Belvedere Courtyard
(mentioned in this post).


Hall of Statues

Check out the ceiling!



Statue of Hercules,
description below:





Boy with Flute


(Yes, I'm citing Wikipedia,
but the information there matches what our Vatican guide told us!)


Old Bacchus


And then there's *this* guy....

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