Vatican museums. Part I.

Recently the Vatican decided to open in some days its huge museums till the night. What a wonderful occasion to visit a place I visited only 15 years ago, with the school.

My (Chatolic!) God what impressive amount of beauty in those rooms. And the rooms themselves! Painted by great maestri of the reinassance (I mean Raffaello and of course Michelangelo!). Everywhere there are statues from ancient Greece, from the imperial Rome, from all the provinces of its Empire, from the neoclassical workshops of the reinassance artists. I was very near to a Stendhal Syndrome.

Then suddenly all was silence and calm: I was standing in front of a statue by Canova: “il perseo trionfante” (triumphing Perseus).  A legend says that this is the real body of Perseus that was petryfied by the sight of the Medusa he just killed: he forgot not to look at her eyes. What a pity.