Week 5 - Vatican City
The weeks are flying by, this week we are already into the second half of the program…, I cant believe that we already been here for over a month. We started last week with a whole day in the Vatican. Tuesday morning we sketched at the Saint Peter’s square for 3 hours. I tried to tackle the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica. I was sitting in the shadow of the big obelisk in the middle of the square. I got all my line work done but when I wanted to add some watercolor the sun moved a round the obelisk and I decided to do watercolor the sketch later and tried to get some other drawings in.After our sketching session in the morning we broke for lunch and met up around 1 for the Vatican museums.The Vatican museums were definitely a highlight of the program so far. I have been already up at the St Peter’s Square a couple of times but never made it into the Museum, so I was looking for that for quite a while. The Museums are among the greatest museums in the world, the show parts of the work from the huge collection built by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries. Within the 5 hours we spent so many art masterpieces, on our way through the Museums we saw the Sistine Chapel, the Stanze della Segnatura and countless other artworks that I dreamed to see for a very long time.The only downside was that the walk through the Museums felt like they funneled us through like cows. It was hard to enjoy and experience all that artwork, because either somebody tried to squeeze through and you got an elbow in your hips, or people just positioned themselves right in front of you to take photos of the artwork or so… but that just shows how popular the museums are I guess…Later that week we went back to the Vatican to visit. St Peters dome. Matt gave us an introduction about the Basilica and after that we wondered around by our self. Before breaking for lunch we climbed up the dome and I must say, those were the best 5€ I spent in Rome so far! The view from up there was amazing, it was kind of a fight to get a spot at the railing, but once you stood there you had a beautiful view over the whole city!
The weeks are flying by, this week we are already into the second half of the program…, I cant believe that we already been here for over a month. We started last week with a whole day in the Vatican. Tuesday morning we sketched at the Saint Peter’s square for 3 hours. I tried to tackle the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica. I was sitting in the shadow of the big obelisk in the middle of the square. I got all my line work done but when I wanted to add some watercolor the sun moved a round the obelisk and I decided to do watercolor the sketch later and tried to get some other drawings in.After our sketching session in the morning we broke for lunch and met up around 1 for the Vatican museums.The Vatican museums were definitely a highlight of the program so far. I have been already up at the St Peter’s Square a couple of times but never made it into the Museum, so I was looking for that for quite a while. The Museums are among the greatest museums in the world, the show parts of the work from the huge collection built by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries. Within the 5 hours we spent so many art masterpieces, on our way through the Museums we saw the Sistine Chapel, the Stanze della Segnatura and countless other artworks that I dreamed to see for a very long time.The only downside was that the walk through the Museums felt like they funneled us through like cows. It was hard to enjoy and experience all that artwork, because either somebody tried to squeeze through and you got an elbow in your hips, or people just positioned themselves right in front of you to take photos of the artwork or so… but that just shows how popular the museums are I guess…Later that week we went back to the Vatican to visit. St Peters dome. Matt gave us an introduction about the Basilica and after that we wondered around by our self. Before breaking for lunch we climbed up the dome and I must say, those were the best 5€ I spent in Rome so far! The view from up there was amazing, it was kind of a fight to get a spot at the railing, but once you stood there you had a beautiful view over the whole city!
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