Vatican Art Walks Tours

Vaticanartwalks site back online

vaticanartwalks — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:31:07 +0000

Your favorite Vatican tour site was hacked, and I am in the process of re-upping everything. Thank you to those of you who wrote with technical advice (and encouragement!), what frustration! I’ll get the blog current again in the next phase.

Vatican No Longer Out To Get Wilde

vaticanartwalks — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:47:20 +0000

Oscar Wilde

The Vatican just officially made peace with Oscar Wilde.

Museums open at night

vaticanartwalks — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:39:30 +0000

The queue is massively long most mornings of the year, making it difficult to see the Sistine Chapel unless you’re part of a guided tour. So to make it easier for Romans to see the museums the opening hours have been extended this year.

Storing all that stuff

vaticanartwalks — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:29:34 +0000

Where do they store the thousands of chairs for weekly audience with the pope? Who repairs the Flemish tapestries and the period furniture? The answers to these questions and many more in the Catholic Courier

Amazing artist draws Rome from memory

vaticanartwalks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:21:25 +0000

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist who — after a mere 45-minute helicopter ride — sketches Rome from memory on a massive canvas. He accurately fills in not only major monuments like the Colosseum, Pantheon and St Peter’s Basilica, but tons of tiny details that you and I wouldn’t remember even if we saw them every day! Watch it here.

Pope Benedict goes on summer vacation

vaticanartwalks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:08:46 +0000

He’s expected to do lots of walking, reading, resting and…. piano playing. As if his resumè weren’t already impressive, he’s also an accomplished pianist. Read a bit about his summer vacation here.

Sistine Chapel Restoration- Disastrous?

vaticanartwalks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:50:01 +0000

You be the judge. Pro and cons, theories and some good pics of the Sistine Chapel restoration in progress here. And for an in-depth article about the frescoes try this.

President Obama Visits Pope Benedict XVI

vaticanartwalks — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:59:27 +0000

Here’s a nice photo gallery of President and Michelle Obama’s visit to Vatican city

President and Michelle Obama have a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI

and their audience with the pope.