We asked for a photo of us with the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, but we got just us. So I think placing the above two photos, one on top of the other, gets exactly the idea we were going for.
Above you will see the statue of Apollo Belvedere. He is the god of sun and music. When this work was discovered it was considered the most perfect work of art in the world. One aspect I find interesting is that there was a period of time when it was accepted to have sculptures constructed in the nude. Yet as time went on, the Church added fig leaves to statues, after the fact, because it was deemed obscene otherwise.
Below you will find the ceiling of the hallway of tapestries... I love it!
The paintings throughout this museum were of ginormous proportions:
This was one of my absolute favorite paintings in all of Rome (next to the Sistine Chapel):
It's the School of Athens. It features Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, etc. Raphael was painting this while Michelangelo was working on the Sistine Chapel right down the hall! Can you imagine?