OUR ROME TOUR: INSIDE ANCIENT MUSEUM SERIES - PART 3

THE VATICAN MUSEUMS, ITALY.

The Vatican Museums are the museums of the Vatican City and they are located within the boundaries of the Vatican City. The Museums showcases works from the immense collection built up by the Popes throughout the centuries, including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and also the most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.

The Museums was founded in the early 16th century by the Pope Julius II. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael, are on the visitors route through the Vatican Museums. In 2013, Statistical records shows that about six million (6,000,000) tourists visited the Museums,  and which makes the museum to be ranked as  the 6th most visited art museum in the world.

There are 54 galleries in total, with the Sistine Chapel. In this present century, the museums abhors works of Greek and Roman sculptures like Greek Cross Gallery, Sala Rotonda, Gallery of the Statues, Gallery of the busts, Cabinet of the masks, Sala delle Muse and Sala degli Animalia.

HISTORY

The Vatican Museums trace its origin to a marble sculpture, purchased 500 years ago. Precisely, the sculpture of Laocoön and his Sons which were discovered on the 14th of January, in the year 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II ordered Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. Based on their recommendations, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. Pope Julius II displays the sculpture of Laocoön and his sons to the public at the Vatican exactly one month after its discovery.

The Christianum Museum was founded by Pope Benedict XIV, and some of the Vatican collections formed the Lateran Museum, which Pope Pius IX founded by decree in 1854.

The art gallery was formerly housed in the Borgia Apartment, until Pope Pius XI ordered the construction of a proper building. The new building was then inaugurated on the 27th of October, in the year 1932. 

The building architecture was done by Luca Beltrami. The museums has paintings which includes Giotto's Stefaneschi Triptych, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Raphael's Madonna of Foligno, Oddi Altarpiece and Transfiguration, Leonardo da Vinci's St. Jerome in the Wilderness, Caravaggio's Entombment, Perugino's Madonna and Child with Saints and San Francesco al Prato Resurrection, Filippo Lippi's Marsuppini Coronation, and the  Jan Matejko's Sobieski at Vienna.

The Vatican Museums celebrated their 500th anniversary in October 2006 by permanently opening the excavations of a Vatican Hill necropolis to the public.

MODERN RELIGIOUS ARTS AND SCULPTURE MUSEUMS

The Collection of Modern Religious Art houses range of paintings and sculptures from artists like Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico.

Museo Pio-Clementino, one of the sculpture museums in the Vatican Museums acquire its name from two popes, the Pope Clement XIV and the Pope Pius VI, these two popes are those who completed the Museum. Pope Clement XIV came up with the idea of creating a new museum in Pope Innocent VIII's Belvedere palace and started the refurbishment work.

Pope Clement XIV founded the Pio-Clementino museum in 1771, and originally it contained the Renaissance and antique works. The museum and collection were later enlarged by Clement's successor, Pope Pius VI. Today, the museum abhors works of Greek and Roman sculptures.

Other sculpture museums in the Vatican Museums includes the Museo Chiaramonti which was named after Pope Pius VII; Museo Gregoriano Etrusco founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836; Museo Gregoriano Egiziano which houses grand collection of artifacts dating from ancient Egypt and was inaugurated on the 2nd of February, in the year 1839 to commemorate the anniversary of Gregory XVI's accession to the papacy.

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PERFECT WAYS TO GO BRALESS WITH BIG BOOBS - #shotsTV Fashion

You have got a big boobs and you felt you would look awkward if you go BRALESS. Perhaps, friends said you cannot flaunt your big breasts the way you want to because they might jump around in public. Yes! Small breasts may most times be perky and firm while BRALESS but because you have a large breast does not restricts you from flaunting what you have got. What you need is tips on what to wear to keep your big breasts firm and makes you more comfortable in public.

We have took some time to analyse the wears you could wear and go BRALESS without worrying about your breasts looking awkward in public. Scroll down and read the Seven (7) essential tips listed for your convenience.

#01 - WEAR A SCARF AROUND YOUR NECK

Wearing a scarf truly hides your breasts from the public and as well as it also allow girls who do not like to be seen as a 'BRALESS girl' stay more comfortable, even though the front side is naked in their garments. Try this out and be unbothered and relaxed all day. 

#02 - TRY OUT WORKOUT TOPS WITH BUILT-IN SUPPORT 

Many tops are now produced with built-In support; even though they are not as restrictive as bras but they rather gives you convenient ample reinforcement. Try it out by wearing it under sweater or cardigan.

#03 - GO FOR A TIGHTER TOPS

Nothing is as embarrassing as having your breasts jumping around under your outfit in public. Wearing a tighter tops saves the embarrassment by holding firm of your large boobs and putting them in place. It is more advisable to go for tighter tops and stay comfortable all day while you flaunting what you got.

#04 - STAY STYLISH IN PLUNGE TOPS

Look stylish just like other celebrities on the red carpet in a deep and fitted plunge tops. Not only that it holds your large breast in place, but it also give you a pleasing cleavage and  comfort while you are out there flaunting around. 

#05 - FLAUNT YOUR BRALESS BOOBS IN HALTER DRESSES

Halter dresses looks more stylish on big breasted women as it also gives the opportunity to go BRALESS. Try one these out and support with sew-In cups for ample reinforcement.

#06 - LOOK FLAWLESS IN BODY SUITS

Body suits are made of spandex and so they are tight which makes gives support to your breasts and makes you comfortable when you go BRALESS. Wear them on jeans, trousers and skirts.

#07 - WEAR A BANDEAU

Bandeau are pretty good and they are cheap. It gives you also the opportunity to wear them under a loose top. They provides more convenience all day long.

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#003 MUST-SEE CREEPIEST ANIMAL IN THE WORLD- COMPLETE FACTS!

SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION 

KINGDOM: Animalia

PHYLLUM: Chordata

CLASS: Mammalia 

ORDER: Eulipotyphla

FAMILY: Talpidae

SUB-FAMILY: Scalopinae

TRIBE: Condylurini

GENUS: Condylura

SPECIES: C. Cristata

BINOMIAL NAME: Condylura Cristata

The Star-nosed mole is the only member of the tribe 'Condylurini' and the genus 'Condylura'.

The small mole is found in wet low areas of Eastern Canada and the Northeastern United States.

Adults are about 15-20cm in length and they weight approximately about 55grams; they have 44 teeth and a nose of about 1cm with 22 pink-fleshy appendages that all looks like a star.

The star-nosed mole got its name from the shape of its appendages known as 'Eimer's Organs' which is extremely sensitive, with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors; with which it feels its way  around and also detect food; and through which they are easily identified.

FEATURES 

The star-nosed mole is covered in thick, blackish-brown, water-repellent fur; has a large scaled feet and a long, thick tail (function as a fat storage reserve for the spring breeding season).

Its most distinctive feature is a circle of 22 mobile, pink-fleshy tentacles at the end of its snout, which are used to identify food by touch, such as worms, insects, mollusks, crustaceans, small invertebrates, small amphibians and small fishes which this creature feeds on.

Its 22 star-like receptors known as the Eimer's organs were first described in the European mole in 1871 by German zoologist, Theodor Eimer. There are few mole species also which  possess Eimer's organs, but they are not as numerous as in the star-nosed mole. 

The star-nosed mole is precisely functionally blind, the snout was long suspected to be used to detect electrical activity in prey animals, though little, if any, empirical support has been found for this hypothesis.

STUDY

The nasal star and dentition of this species appear to be primarily adapted to exploit extremely small prey. A report in the journal Nature gives this animal the title of fastest-eating mammal, taking as short as 120 milliseconds to identify and consume its prey. Its brain decides in approximately 8 milliseconds if a prey is edible or not. This speed is at the limit of the speed of neurons. They also are able to smell underwater which is accomplished with the help of exhaling air bubbles onto objects or scent trails and then inhaling the bubbles to carry scents back through their nose.

ECOLOGY AND TRAITS

Although, they are found in wet lowland areas, but research shows they also found in dry meadows, farther away from water. They have been found in the Great Smokey Mountains as high as up to 1,676 meters. Meanwhile, the star-nosed mole does prefer wet, poorly drained areas and marshes; and besides, it is a good swimmer and can as well forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. It often digs shallow surface tunnels for foraging which exit underwater. It is active day and night and remains more active in winter, when it has been observed tunneling through the snow and swimming in ice-covered streams.

The small animal mates in late winter or early spring, and the female has one litter of typically 4-5 young in late spring or early summer. Moreso, the females are known to have a second litter, provided that their first littrr is unsuccessful. 

At birth, each offspring is about 5 cm (2 in) long, hairless, and weighs about 1.5 g. Their eyes, ears, and star are all sealed, and then later appears opening and functioning about 14 days after the birth. They become independent after about 30 days, and then fully mature after 10 months. 

THREATS

The star-nosed mole's predators or threats include the red-tailed hawk, great horned owl, barn owl, screech owl, foxes, weasels, minks, various skunks and mustelids, and large fish such as the northern pike, and lastly not to forget domestic cats.

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