painted ceiling and walls How many pictures of painted ceilings should I post... How many roman ruins pictures... statues... tiled floors... tapestries... maps...... We 'did' the Vatican Museum today - finishing up with the Sistine Chapel - it was a mammoth 3 hour slog - and when I say slog I don't mean it wasn't enjoyable but its bit like trying to walk backwards on a conveyor belt of people - round a most beautiful building with incredible exhibits from amazing tiled floors to the obvious painted frescoes and ceilings. such detailed stone carving In-between all this were sculptured bits of marble sliced and mirrored and in every kind of colour and pattern marble could ever be seen in. it was all very sumptuous -and completely over the top!!!! Every surface was patterned, tiled, marbled or painted. The Map corridor was just amazing - map fresco only one I could get pretty much whole there were so many people about I cant help thinking of the poor...