The Vatican Museums was the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty directors of photography, operators, and lighting technicians, state-of-the-art digital cinematography, lighting, animation, and computerized editing, and the work of a famous composer with original performances by master musicians.

Now available on DVD for the first time, this historic three-disc collection features seven hours of magnificent documentary film that illuminates and chronicles the great journey of the human spirit. Here then is the world’s most spectacular and sacred repository of art, history, and faith.

Produced by the Edizioni Musei Vaticani, Vatican City State Directed by Luca De Mata Original Music by Stelvio Cipriani Music copyright held by Edizioni Musei Vaticani, Bixio c.e.m.s.a. Scientific Direction by the Vatican Museums Written by Professor Carlo Pietrangeli, the Trappist Nuns of Vitorchiano, Pietro Amato, Fabrizio Bisconti, Francesco Buranelli, Mario Ferrazza, Paolo Liverani, Jozef Penkowski, Orazio Petrosillo, & Alessandra Uncini

DISC I Chapter 1 • HISTORY of the MUSEUMS Chapter 2 • GREEK ART in the VATICAN MUSEUMS Chapter 3 • ROMAN ART Chapter 4 • The EGYPTIAN MUSEUM Chapter 5 • The ETRUSCAN MUSEUM

DISC II Chapter 6 • The ORIGINS of CHRISTIAN ART Chapter 7 •The SISTINE CHAPEL Chapter 8 • The RAPHAEL ROOMS & The LOGGIA Chapter 9 • The HISTORICAL MUSEUM at ST. JOHN LATERAN Chapter 10 • The ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM

DISC III Chapter 11 • The PICTURE GALLERY Chapter 12 • The COLLECTION of MODERN RELIGIOUS ART Chapter 13 • The APOSTOLIC PALACE Chapter 14 • VATICAN CITY Chapter 15 • The GREAT BASILICA