Meeting with the driver and guide in hotel.
The Vatican palaces and St. Peter's were a true "factory" of Renaissance art. In the Vatican the two highest artists of the period, Raphael and Michelangelo, shared the same experience and compared their conception of art. The sweet natured and charmingly polite Raphael worked next door to the gloomy, laconic and self-absorbed Michelangelo. Both men carried out some of the most significant art works of all times: the frescoes in the private apartment of Pope Julius II, decorated by Raphael between 1508 and 1520; those on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, achieved by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, and the Last Judgement. The tour inside the Vatican Museums - one of the world's most important art collections - and in St. Peter's Basilica, will expose those treasures and many others, like the wonderful tapestries made to Raphael's designs, his beautiful Madonna di Foligno and the Transfiguration of Christ in the Pinacoteca, the moving Pietà and the Dome, the very last project by Michelangelo.
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