and their wives, whose ancient authentic busts are arranged round the
room in chronological order:--
1. Julius Cæsar.
2. Augustus.
4. Tiberius.
6. Drusus, sen.
7. Drusus, jun.
8. Antonia.
9. Germanicus.
10. Agrippina, sen.
11. Caligula.
12. Claudius.
13. Messalina.
14. Agrippina, jun.
16. Nero.
17. Poppæa Sabina.
18. Galba.
19. Otho.
20. Vitellius.
21. Vespasian.
22. Titus.
23. Julia.
24. Domitian.
25. Domitia Longina.
27. Trajan.
28. Plotina.
31. Hadrian.
33. Julia Sabina.
35. Antoninus Pius.
36. Faustina, sen.
38. Marcus Aurelius.
39. Faustina, jun.
43. Commodus.
44. Crispina.
45. Pertinax.
46. Didius Julianus.
47. Manlia Scantilla.
50. Septimius Severus.
52. Julia Pia.
53. Caracalla.
54. Geta.
55. Macrinus.
57. Elagabalus.
60. Alexander Severus.
62. Maximinus.
64. Gordianus I.
65. Gordianus II.
66. Pupienus.
67. Balbinus.
68. Gordianus III.
69. Philip.
70. Decius.
72. Hostilianus.
73. Gallus.
76. Gallienus.
77. Salonina.
80. Diocletian.
81. Chlorus.
82. Julian, the philosopher.
83. Magnus Decentius.
There are several bas-reliefs round the room. Seated in the centre is
Agrippina, "the glory of the Roman matrons;" daughter of M. V. Agrippa
and Julia, daughter of Augustus; wife of Germanicus, and mother of
Caligula. "It is a statue combining an expression of moral dignity and
of intellectual force, with as much beauty and poetical grace as the
genius of sculpture ever borrowed from breathing nature to work out
its own miracles of art. This statue--a history and an epic in
itself--represents a woman in the prime of life seated in a chair of
state, and in the deep repose of meditative thought. The statue is
lofty, her brow of high capacity, her mouth expressive of love and
wit, and all her features are harmonized by that regularity which is
ever denied to defective organizations. Over the whole of this
simply-draped and noble figure there is an air of tranquil majesty,
which, in its solemn influence, likens it to the statues of the gods"
(Lady Morgan). It may have originally stood on the cinerary base in
the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.