Vatican Art Gallery
The Pinacoteca Vaticana, commonly called the Vatican Art Gallery, sits as part of the Vatican Museums, founded in the 20th century but built on an older, monumental vision. Here, map-filled rooms invite you to trace Italy as it was imagined in painted form, with the Gallery of Maps occupying the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard. The core feature is 40 fresco panels running about 120 meters in length, commissioned during the papacy of Gregory XIII and completed in 1583 by Ignazio Danti, a friar and geographer whose team included Antonio Danti. Each panel presents a regional portrait of Italy, pairing a broad region with a prominent city view, offering an atlas brought to life on plaster. The maps are noted for an accuracy described as approximately 80%, divided by the Apennines into eastern and western zones—one side facing the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas, the other the Adriatic coast. …
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