The virtual museums hold actual collections in a gallery setting with an appealing design and layout. The study illustrates an exhibit of a Rome Virtual Tour that simulates the existing location comprising a sequence of still images and videos. Besides, it incorporates media elements, including texts, narration, music, and sound effects. The virtual tour accounts for the Vatican Museums as Vatican City’s public museums.
The Vatican Museums include the most important masterpieces and renowned Roman sculptures of Renaissance art worldwide. The hotspots of Rome’s virtual tour illuminate the Sistine Chapel, the Raphael Rooms, and Pio Clementino Museum (Vaticani, Virtual Tours). For instance, the study is conscious of the Sistine Chapel in Italy, the Pope’s official residence at the Vatican City, Apostolic Palace. It is famous due to its Renaissance frescoes by the artist Michelangelo.
The study illustrates the exhibit’s artwork of the Sistine Chapel, popularly painted by Michelangelo, who undertook the creation of legendary frescoes in a standing position. In painting the walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo used the media with a scaffolding designed for moving across the chapel. He used a fresco media technique applying washes of paints to wet plaster, enabling the painting process. Fundamentally, the artist used the buon fresco and fresco secco technique to add color to the artwork.
The paintings in the Sistine Chapel assume a size of nearly five thousand square feet with a painting area of approximately forty meters long by thirteen meters wide of frescoes (Ulrich 19). The artwork used Renaissance architecture as the historic style used by European architecture, particularly between the early fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in various regions. Michelangelo used the style to demonstrate a conscious revival and development of specific elements associated with the material culture and thought of Romans and ancient Greek. The artwork belongs in the category of Sistine Chapel ceiling.
The artwork represents a formalism theory of Western Art portraying dimensions of landscape, people, and history in a highly realistic impressionist style linking the American West culture. Michelangelo uses the theory to master the artistic principles and elements. The piece of art succeeded considering the consistency of most of its visual features encompassing color and line quality. Sistine Chapel incorporates a division into at least two equal sections through a pattern of floor mosaics and a marble screen (Ulrich 23). Additionally, its unique pavement simulated medieval floors that featured multicolored mosaics to form concentric circles and geometric patterns. The Sistine Chapel artwork utilized design principles such as proportion, alignment and balance, emphasis, repetition, and contrast to create a valuable and attractive composition.
The artwork is attractive since it enables an illustration of several competing and coalescing styles of the Renaissance. It is a masterpiece that captures the very beginning of humanity with works depicting personages and incidences from the Old Testament. It has beautiful works, some telling the stories of Moses and Christ, key for humanity’s survival and decent living. However, dislike of the artwork raises concerns over its nudity, necessitating a cover-up of the genitals by adding loincloths and fig leaves. Also, since camera flashes can harm the artwork, photography is off-limits at the Sistine Chapel in Italy.
In conclusion, the exhibit fosters utmost worthiness for the viewer due to its symbolic representation of papacy favorable for Christian-hood. The artwork is impressive for a viewer considering its design and creation of a unique scaffolding system sturdy enough to enhance their creativity. Moreover, the exhibit is not only for God giving Adam intelligence but also for observation and intelligence. It integrates the bodily organs creating a possibility to lead without the necessity of the Church directly to God.
Works Cited
Msvei Vaticani. Virtual Tours. Retrieved 2022, from https://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html
Pfisterer, Ulrich. The Sistine Chapel: Paradise in Rome. Getty Publications, 2018.
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