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Beautiful art, sculptures and paintings inside the Vatican museums in Rome Royalty Free Stock Photo

Wall of a room inside the Vatican Museums in Rome in Italy Royalty Free Stock Photo

The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the best-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on displayPope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century.The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling and altar wall decorated by Michelangelo, and the Stanze di Raffaello (decorated by Raphael) are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums,[considered among the most canonical and distinctive works of Western and European art.