Book a tour of Vatican Museums and join a group for the visit of book a private tour so that you can have a private guide that explains the works of art just to you. The Vatican Museums contains 7 miles of Italian and international art, whose peculiarities are perfectly explained by the professional and English speaking guide.
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One of the works of art that you can admire is the sculpture “Lacoon and his children”. The discovery of this statue was peculiar: in fact it was found in a vineyard in the 16th century, in an area no distant from the Domus Aurea of Nerone. One of the spectators of this finding was Michelangelo, that was very impressed by the beauty of the statue that conditioned some of Michelangelo’s works that followed that date. Not only Michelangelo succumbed to the charm of this statue: Napoleon confiscated the statue in 1798 and ordered its transport to the Louvre museum where it remained until 1815 after Napoleon’s downfall when it was brought back to Rome and it was restored by Antonio Canova. After such trip it does worth a visit, which you can do with the tour of Vatican Museums.
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During the tour of Vatican Museums, when in front of this sculpture, the guide will surely explains you the mythical origin of the marble group. It refers to an episode of the Eneide of Virgilio. Lacoon was Apollo’s messenger and it was about to announce to his population the danger of the Trojan horse, when two huge snakes sent by the gods came out from the sea and choked to death Lacoon and his children. Book a tour of Vatican Museums and come to know this story, old of centuries. The three Greek artists that did this work of art on the 1st century AD had the ability to give movement to the group even if the material they used is marble.