The Vatican: Private VIP Experience Tour

The Vatican collections are without any doubt the most important in the world.

Where else can you see the very peak of Michelangelo and Raphael’s art, the greatest sculptures of antiquity, priceless tapestries, Renaissance cartography, and at last beautiful Renaissance architecture-all within one site? Enjoy the privilege of having a private art historian guide you to see Michelangelo's miraculous works in the Sistine Chapel and even more remarkable frescoes by Raphael.

Learn from a compelling narrative of the Renaissance brought to life by our expert and tailored to your personal interests! Skip the lines at St.

Peter's Basilica to see Michelangelo's moving Pietà next to Bernini's great canopy over the altar.

Our guides will take you through the great feats of the Italian Renaissance so that you may know both the Florentine Renaissance and Papal court in Rome, where Michelangelo made his works famous.

This VIP Vatican Tour will uncover to you the importance of figures like Jonah, Adam, Eve, Noah, etc., on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and many more in Last Judgment in bringing forward those very ideals shared by Michelangelo and all true Renaisance men.

Only then can one begin to understand how these frescoes came to utterly change not just the world of art but our view of it forever.

Some other important works we will see are immortal Greek masterpieces like Laocoon, Belvedere Torso, and Apollo Belvedere discovered during Michelangelo's and Raphael's day.

These artists came to study and come to value these works within the same architectural context, which they continue to uphold.

The works that they created are based directly on their intense observations.

Thus, we will also walk through the Pinecone courtyard, the Belvedere courtyard, and the tapestry galleries where a small number of masterpieces will be revealed to us under the guidance of an expert who can conjure up the atmosphere of that time and make you appreciate more fully the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine Chapel in their historical context.

This part of our guided tour will take us to St.

Peter's Basilica, where we shall meet at the heart of Christian faith.

It is here that an extraordinary collection of relics and devotional objects has gathered over almost 2,000 years at this very spot—over these nearly two millennia—instead on top of Peter's tomb.