THE VATICAN MUSEUM
ROME
IMAGE NUMBER 1015
The Vatican Museums are Christian art museums located within Vatican City. They display the immense collection amassed by popes throughout the centuries including several of the most renowned 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 display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael, are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. In 2017, they were visited by six million people, which makes it the 4th most visited art museum in the world. It is one of the largest museums in the world.
TECHNICAL NOTES
The image was taken with a hand-held Phase One 645XF Camera at ISO 800. Exposure of 1/200th of a second and an aperture of f2.8. Schneider Kreuznach 45 mm lens with leaf shutter. The image was captured on a Phase One IQ3 100 megapixel digital back.