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Walks in Rome Part 100

55. Death of Adonis: _Spagnoletto_.

In this room is an ancient marble chair, found near the Lateran--and on a table "the Corsini Vase," in silver, with reliefs representing the judgment of Areopagus upon the matricide of Orestes.

_5th Room._--(In which Christina died, with a ceiling by the _Zuccari_.)

2. Holy Family: _Pierino del Vaga_.

12. St. Agnes: _Carlo Dolce_.*

14. Madonna reading: _Sassoferrato_.

20. Ulysses and Polyphemus: _Lanfranco_.

23. Madonna and Child: _Albani_.

26. Madonna and Child: _Sassoferrato_.

37. Addolorata: _Guido Reni_.

38. Ecce Homo: _Guido Reni_.

39. St. John: _Guido Reni_.

_6th Room._--

19. Portrait: _Holbein_.

20. Mgr. Ghiberti: _Titian_.

21. Children of Charles V.: _Titian_.*

22. Old Woman: _Rembrandt_.*

23. Male Portrait: _Giorgione_.

31. Caterina Bora, Wife of Luther: _Holbein_.*

32. Male Portrait: _Vandyke_.

34. Nativity of the Virgin. Miniature from _Durer_.

40. Cardinal Divitius de Bibbiena: _Bronzino_.

47. Portrait of Himself: _Rubens_.*

48. A Doge of Venice: _Tintoret_.

54. Cardinal Alessandro Farnese: _Titian_.*

68. Cardinal Neri Corsini: _Baciccio_.

_7th Room._--

1. Madonna and Child: _Murillo_.*

13. Landscape: _G. Poussin_.

15. St. Sebastian: _Rubens_.

18. Christ bearing the Cross: _Garofalo_.

21. Christ among the Doctors: _Luca Giordano_.

22. Descent of the Holy Spirit: _Fra Angelico_.

23. Last Judgment: _Fra Angelico_.

24. Ascension: _Fra Angelico_.

"A Last Judgment by Angelico da Fiesole, with wings containing the Ascension and the Descent of the Holy Ghost, is in the Corsini Gallery. Here we perceive a great richness of expression and beauty of drapery; the rapture of the blessed is told, chiefly by their embraces and by their attitudes of prayer and praise. It is a remarkable feature, and one indicative of the master, that the ranks of the condemned are entirely filled by monks."--_Kugler._

26. Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew: _Lod. Caracci_.

30. Woman taken in Adultery: _Titian_.*

35. Gonfaloniere of the Church: _Domenichino_.

_8th Room._--

8. Christ before Pilate: _Vandyke_.

12. St. George: _Ercole Grandi_.

13. Contemplation: _Guido Reni_.

15. Landscape: _G. Poussin_.

17. Judith and Head of Holofernes: _Gerard de la Nuit_.

24. St. Jerome: _Guercino_.

25. St. Jerome: _Spagnoletto_.

43. Mosaic portrait of Clement XII. and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini.

In this room are two modern family busts with touching inscriptions.

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