So let s talk about the school of athens by raphael.
Best rooms in the vatican museum.
The statue represents an athlete in the act of scraping sweat from his body after a competition with the small curved instrument that the romans called a strigil.
Also located inside the sistine chapel the raphael rooms contains the best works of raffaello sanzio da urbino and his students.
If you love raphael s work you will really enjoy these rooms.
Pope clement xiv founded the pio clementino museum in 1771 and originally it contained the renaissance and antique works.
The raphael rooms are part of the vatican museum tour that includes the sistine chapel.
Clement xiv who established the museum and pius vi the pope who brought the museum to completion clement xiv came up with the idea of creating a new museum in innocent viii s belvedere palace and started the refurbishment work.
The museum is formed by 12 rooms and contains important greek and roman works of art in the interior of the gabinetto dell apoxyomenos there is a roman copy of a greek bronze statue by lysippus aroud 320 bc.
There are many people walking through all the time so you will need to maneuver yourself around all 4 sides in order to see each side of the rooms well.
The museums also contain the four suits of the raphael rooms.
Vatican for kids private tour buy tickets at viator this tour is created specifically to keep it fun and.
Vatican museum must sees raphael rooms and raphael s school of athens while there is a lot to see in the papal apartments we are focusing this page on vatican museum must sees.