Vatican city is where the 11 Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel are located at. In one of the museums, there are sculptures showing how predators are killing the prey; and how the stronger party gets victory from killing the weaker party. These sculptures show the 'law of the jungle', suggesting that only the strong ones could survive. This museum is a long hallway with maps of different Italy parts on both sides of the walls. The ceiling is filled with golden frames, with paintings of religious significance in them. Raphael's School of Athens is located in one of the rooms in the Vatican museums. This painting represents all the greatest mathematicians, philosophers and scientists from classical antiquity gathered together sharing their ideas and learning from each other. These figures all lived at different times, but here they are gathered together under one roof. The two opposing philosophers, Aristotle (right) and Plato (left) stand in the very centre of the painting, they are important influencers of the Western thinking. In the painting, Plato points up because in his philosophy the changing world that we see around us is just a shadow of a higher, truer reality that is eternal and unchanging (and include things like goodness and beauty). For Plato, this otherworldly reality is the ultimate reality, and the seat of all truth, beauty, justice, and wisdom. Plato holds his book called the Timaeus. While, Aristotle holds his hand down, because in his philosophy, the only reality is the one that we can see and experience by sight and touch (exactly the reality dismissed by Plato). Aristotle's Ethics (the book that he holds) "emphasised the relationships, justice, friendship, and government of the human world and the need to study it." In the museum before Sistine Chapel, is a room filled with Modern and Contemporary art, including paintings of Jesus's Crucifixion, Rome's architectures, angels and sculptures. Sistine Chapel- The Sistine Chapel is filled completely with paintings of Biblical Stories
-> Stories of Moses was painted on the South and Entrance walls -> Stories of Christ was painted on the North and Entrance walls -> Portraits of the Popes was painted on the North, South and Entrance walls - Michelangelo painted the ceiling and the upper part of the walls, the lunettes -> The 'Creation of Adam' is one of his most famous pieces, which was amongst the last panels to be completed, telling the story of Genesis --> The painting depicts God the father creating Adam who is the first man --> The focal point of the episode of the Creation of Adam painting is the contact between the fingers of God and those of Adam, through which the breath of life is transmitted --> Michelangelo creates a tingling tension by leaving a small space between the fingers of God and Adam, as we all wait for the wondrous moment of God completing his Creation of Adam
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