_Open on the 1st and 15th of the month._
It contains the famous frescoes of Raphael. On the ceiling of the
first room that of the fable of Cupid and Psyche, designed by Raphael,
and painted by Giulio Romano. This charming fable is described by
Kugler in his "Handbook on the Italian Painters."
_Commencing on the left_, the first is Venus ordering Cupid to punish
Psyche; second, Cupid showing Psyche to the Three Graces; third, Juno
and Ceres pleading for Psyche; fourth, Venus in her Car going to claim
the interference of Jupiter; fifth, Venus pleading before Jupiter;
sixth, Mercury flying to execute the Order of Jupiter; seventh, Psyche
with the Vase of Beauty-Paint given by Proserpine to appease Venus;
eighth, Psyche giving the Vase to Venus; ninth, Cupid complaining to
Jupiter; tenth, Mercury taking Psyche to Olympus. _On the vault_,
Council of the Gods, by Giulio Romano; Banquet of the Gods, on the
Marriage of Cupid, by Francesco Penni. _On the wall of the second
room_, Raphael's Galatea; on the ceiling, Diana in her Car drawn by
Oxen, by Peruzzi, and the fable of Medusa, by D. Volterra. The
landscapes are by Poussin.
On the opposite side of the street, just beyond the Corsini Palace
entrance, in the Vicolo Stalle d'Corsini, is the