1The Vatican Pietà: the pictorial testament of Vincent Van Gogh

Your adventurous journey through the history of art ends in the presence of one of the greatest creative geniuses of modernity: Vincent Van Gogh.

In fact, as not many remember, the Pinacoteca Vaticana preserves, as if its infinite masterpieces were not enough, even a moving Pietà made by the Dutch artist in 1890, just before his tragic death. A rare example of religious art by the great Vincent who was inspired by a lithography of Delacroix’s Pietà for its composition. The work, which was dedicated by the artist to his beloved sister Williemen, closes the curtain on the painter’s life, and on your visit to the Vatican Museums.

Next

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR