The Vatican Museums - Between Heaven and Earth

A 2013 Sky Italia Documentary created by Donato Dallavalle and directed by Marco Pianigiani. Audio in English.

An extraordinary journey to discover the most evocative works of art collected in two millennia of history inside the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, revealing its masterpieces as they have never been seen before. A mega-production made by a troupe of 40 professionals who have explored the length and breadth of the Vatican Museums: evocative shots taken at night through the rooms where some of the rarest and most precious works in the world are kept, ranging across all cultures and all the eras. Viewers will be able to immerse themselves in the great masterpieces of art history: Caravaggio's paintings, the Laocoon and the Belvedere Torso, feeling enveloped by the never so real frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. From the masterpieces of classical statuary to Michelangelo's Pietà, up to Fontana's modern sculptures; from the paintings of Giotto, Leonardo Da Vinci and Caravaggio to those of Van Gogh, Chagall and Dalì; from the extraordinary frescoes of Raphael's Rooms, such as "The School of Athens", to the spectacular Michelangelo's masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel such as the "Creation of Adam" and the majestic "Last Judgment". These are the stages of a unique and exciting journey, conducted with the authoritative guide of the Director of the Vatican Museums, Professor Antonio Paolucci. Through past, present and future.