_Open Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, from 11 till 3. Entry, 17 Via Archi
della Pilotta._
The pictures have the names of the artists on them. In the first room
we enter, the collection consists of Colonna portraits; then three
rooms of tapestries, and some ancient draped statues, and a pretty
statue of a dancing girl, "Niobe."
FIRST ROOM.--Early schools. Holy Family, by Luca Longhi; Boy in a Red
Cap, by Giovanni Sanzio, Raphael's father; Crucifixion, by Giacomo di
Avanzi; Moses, by Guercino.
SECOND ROOM.--Throne room.
THIRD ROOM.--Guardian Angel, by Guercino; Peasant Eating, by Annibale
Carraci,--true to life; S. Jerome, by Lo Spagna; Portrait, by Paul
Veronese. _Ceiling_, Apotheosis of Martin V., by Lutti and Battoni.
FOURTH ROOM.--Landscapes, by Poussin; Battle-pieces, by Wouvermans;
Sea-shore, by Rosa; Cabinet, with reliefs in ivory; Subjects from the
Sistine Chapel.
THE GREAT HALL.--Ornamented with statues and mirrors. Assumption, by
Rubens; Roman Charity, by Subtermans; Ecce Homo, by Albano; Narcissus,
by Tintoretto; Venus, by Vasari; Rape of the Sabines, by Ghirlandajo;
S. Peter, Madonna, and Child, by Palma Vecchio; Venus and Cupid, by
Bronzino; another, by Salviati; Madonna Liberating a Child from the
Demon, by Nicolo da Poligno.
SIXTH ROOM.--The _Colonna Bellica_, surmounted by a statue of Mars,
with low reliefs round the column.
In the Via dei Fornari, _on the right_, at No. 21, lived Michael
Angelo.
_Crossing the new Via Nazionale, either of the streets on the sides of
the Prefettura leads into_