This museum in the Vatican contains the following famous collections:
1. "Genesis". They are nine consecutive religious-themed murals painted by Michelangelo in the central part of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Hall in the Vatican from May 1508 to October 1512, according to the architectural frame.
This giant mural is taken directly from the beginning of the Bible. It tells the story from the creation of the world to the flood and the ark. These nine murals are "God Separates Light and Darkness", "Creation of Sun, Moon, Grass and Trees", "God Separates Land and Water", "Creation of Adam", "Creation of Eve", "Original Sin - Expulsion from the Garden of Eden", "Sacrifice of Noah", "Great Flood", "Noah Drunk", which contains a total of 343 figures, with a screen area of ??14 X 38.5 square meters.
2. "The Last Judgment". It was also painted by Michelangelo. It was a mural commissioned by Pope Paul III to paint for the Sistine Chapel from 1534 to 1541.
The painting "The Last Judgment" is huge in size, occupying the entire wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel, and depicts more than 400 figures. ?
"The Last Judgment" is simpler than Michelangelo's previous paintings. The content of the painting is about Christ coming to earth and judging the living and the dead at the moment he comes to earth. Those who are forgiven by Christ will receive eternal life. The composition of the picture adopts a complex structure of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines. The picture can be roughly divided into four levels. The top layer is the angels in heaven, the center of the picture is Jesus Christ, the lower layer is the crowd waiting for judgment, and the bottom layer is hell. When The Last Judgment was published in 1541, it caused a huge sensation.
3. "School of Athens". The School of Athens is the home of Italian painter Raphael Sansi, one of the three masters of the Renaissance and the youngest among them. A mural work created from 1950 to 1951 is a large mural with a base length of more than 7 meters.
"The School of Athens" describes what happened when the Greek philosopher Plato opened the School of Athens. The entire painting is set against the background of several arches of the tall building's vaulted roof that spread out in depth. ***Depicted 57 celebrities. The characters in the painting include Plato, Aristotle, his mentor Socrates, Alexander the Great, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, the late ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, and the rhetorician St. Cletus, the Archduke of Urbino, Francesco della Raphael, the mathematician Ou, the astronomer Ptolemy, the Persian prophet and Zoroastrian leader Zoroastrian, Raphael's teacher Perogino, the ancient The great Greek philosopher Heraclitus and the ancient Greek Cynic philosopher Diogenes. Raphael Sansi used this painting to depict the golden age of Greece. Also describes some of the relationships between Greece and the Renaissance.
In addition, the Vatican Museum also collects Caravaggio's "Entombment of Christ", Leonardo da Vinci's "Saint Jerome", and Michelangelo's "Domestic Judgment" and other artists’ works of art.