Satinder S. Panesar

The Uffizi gallery is a prominent art museum located in the historic Centre of Florence  (declared  World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982 ), Italy. One of the most important Italian Museums, and the most visited. It is also one of the largest and best known in the world, and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci . The Virgin Mary and child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangle shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting and a sketch of a rocky landscape. This is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history. Doni Tondo by Michelan...

If you come to Rome and not visit Vatican, can you say - you have seen Rome? Answer is NO. After spending half a day in St. Peter's Church, clicked these marvelous photos but let's start with the master piece from Michelangelo -  Pietà i.e.  Mother Mary holding Jesus, after crucifixion. After climbing 552 stairs to the highest point of dome.