- Address: Cortile della Biblioteca, 00120, Vatican City
- End of construction: 1580
- Architect: O. Macherino
The famous gallery of tapestries (the Arazzi Gallery) is one of the three galleries of the papal ( Apostolic ) palace in the Vatican . Here are tapestries of biblical themes, depicting scenes from the New and Old Testaments.
general information
At 100 meters of the gallery are currently represented 10 tapestries. The plot was based on the drawings of the students of the brilliant Santi Raphael. The master painfully perceived the comparisons of his work and the works of Michelangelo, so the drawings were created in the characteristic for Raphael style: with deliberate exaggeration of figures over the landscape, deliberate allocation of gestures and other details. The tapestries were woven at the famous manufactory of Peter van Elst by Flemish masters. Originally (1531) tapestries were presented in the Sistine Chapel next to the frescoes of Raphael, but in 1838 were transferred to the gallery of Arazzi, where they became available for viewing to the general public.
All tapestries are handmade by masters, the finest silk and wool are used. Tapestries are woven with light tones on one side and dark on the other, the figures are strictly centered, so the illusion is created that the figures turn after the visitor. The most famous tapestries of the gallery are: "Wonderful fishing", "St. Paul preaches in Athens", "Pasi my sheep", "Death of Ananias". The gallery is always light twilight, curtains are drawn, it is prohibited to shoot masterpieces with flash and this is not the whim of the caretakers: they are trying to preserve masterpieces, because the old tapestries fade from sunlight and bright flashes.
How to get there and when to visit?
- From Leonardo da Vinci Airport by express train to Termini station.
- From Ciampino airport, take a bus to Termini station.
- From Termini Station, you can take the metro along line A to the stations of Kipro or Ottaviano - San Pietro - the Vatican Museums.
- Tram number 19 to Risorgimento Square.
- By car on the coordinates.
The gallery, like all the Vatican museums ( the Pio-Clementino museum, the Chiaramonti museum, the Lucifer museum , the historical and Egyptian museums), is open Monday to Saturday from 9.00 to 18.00 (the last visitors can come at 4pm). Sunday and holidays are days off.
Ticket price
Visit the gallery of tapestries can be on a single entrance ticket. For adults it will cost 16 euros, children under 18 and young people under 26 with a European student card - 8 euros, children under 6 years old admission is free.
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