So today I went to see the Sistine Chapel around 1:30 pm. It's totally true that you can slip in the back entrance. After you wait in the super long line to enter the museum, take the left at the crossroads going toward the Sistine Chapel line into a courtyard. Don't go out there. There are glass doors with a big No Entry sign. Bust through and go straight the opposite direction that everyone is walking. Don't follow down the stairs, that leads to the gift shop. Go down a very long hallway, then go through an series of small stairwells. Again people are still coming out. I cheated a little because I followed in a lady. she spoke to all the guards as if she knew them. I stayed pretty close behind as if i might be with her, but I didn't want to let her know i was following. After a different woman passed us, I felt not so scared.
i remember when I was 16 I had a dream i went to the Sistine Chapel and the ceiling had almost worn away.
Anyway I think i waited in the outside line for a good 30 minutes or more. But once i was inside the actual museum it was like 5 minute walk to the chapel.
So I wish I could have seen the rest of the musei but once I found out that the Pieta was in St. Peter's I had to go find that. Again, worst art history student ever didn't know how to find the entrance to St. Peters.
Once I got inside the Pieta was on the right hand side. there weren't a lot of people and I was able to sketch for a long time. I don't think I have ever felt so humbled and scared to draw anything in my life.
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