Charme Holidays Blog
  • HOME
  • BLOG
  • CATEGORIES
    • Rome Tips Map
    • Culture & Events In Italy
    • Italian Food
    • Italian Stories
    • All About Croatia
    • All About Italy

The Most Fascinating Museums Of Rome :  The Churches (part 2/2)

5/5/2016

Comments

 
Continuing our tour amongst the churches of Rome, looking for the most precious treasures of art, it is impossible, sometimes, to avoid queuing. To see the most beautiful Michelangelo's sculpture, "La Pietà"  (made in 1499, when he was only 25years old!) you'll have to go inside St Peter that is more crowded than ever because of the Jubilee. But the beauty that you'll discover is worth a long wait...
Picture
Pietà - Michelangelo
To see another Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Sistine Chapel, even if it is just beside St Peter, you'll have to wait in another queue (and, this time, pay also a ticket that is better to book in advance), at the entrance of the Vatican Museums.
Picture
Cappella Sistina
But you can also find other Michelangelo's works in other churches with a much easier access. For example, in San Pietro in Vincoli, near the via Cavour, not far from the emperor Nero's Golden House (Domus Aurea) and the Colosseum, you'll see a impressive statue of Moses.
Picture
Mose' - Michelangelo
But, if you are in Vatican, you can first just cross the Tiber and walk towards the Pantheon and the Piazza della Minerva. Inside  "Santa Maria sopra Minerva", there is another Michelangelo's sculpture, on the left side of the main altar,  "Christ bearing the cross", that was completed later or, more precisely, "covered" with a bronze drapery. Like some Sistine Chapel nudes that were "dressed" after the Trent Council (1545- 1563)...
Picture
Christ Bearing The Cross - Michelangelo
In this beautiful gothic church (the only one in Rome!) built upon a Minerva's temple in the 13th century, you can also admire some marvellous frescoes by the Florentine painter Filippino Lippi (Filippo Lippi's son) in the Cappella Carafa ((the Assumption and the Annunciation are unforgettable), on the right side of the main altar. And, on the square in front of the church, Piazza della Minerva, the amusing little elephant that carries an obelisk is an unusual Bernini's work.
Picture
Annunciation - Filippino Lippi
Picture
Assumption - Filippino Lippi
Completely different from one of the most intense Bernini's sculpture, "The Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila ", a baroque absolute masterpiece that you can admire in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, via Venti Settembre, not far from the Termini train station. It is also not so far from San Pietro in Vincoli (the Michelangelo's Moses) and from Santa Maria Maggiore, the oldest of the four papal basilicas of Rome. You have to visit this beautiful basilica, especially if you like mosaics. And, in that case, you cannot ignore Santa Prassede, jus a few steps from Santa Maria, with her extraordinary byzantine mosaics from the 9th century.
But, all this is just a little part of the treasures enshrined in the... 900 churches of Rome.
Picture
The Ecstasy of St Teresa - Lorenzo Bernini
Picture
Santa Prassede
Comments
    Paragraph. Clicca qui per modificare.
    Paragraph. Clicca qui per modificare.

    About Us

    We are a group of young curious people! We have the desire of discovering the world and its inhabitants, finding out the simplicity of small gesture, the beauty beyond appearance and authenticity of places and cultures. We want to give the opportunity to everybody to discover our beloved countries, Italy and Croatia

    Archives

    December 2019
    November 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    September 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014

    www.charmeholidays.com
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • HOME
  • BLOG
  • CATEGORIES
    • Rome Tips Map
    • Culture & Events In Italy
    • Italian Food
    • Italian Stories
    • All About Croatia
    • All About Italy