A picture exhibiting our Saviour’s nativity. The devotion and maternal affection of our blessed Lady looking on her babe, is prodigiously well expressed. St. Joseph stands admiring the compunction of two shepherds contrasted by another that takes care of the ass. Of two other shepherds, placed at some distance, one holds a light in his hand and shows the other the manger, expressing a pious wonder. Further off there is a most beautiful angel in the clouds proclaiming the birth of our Saviour to the other shepherds. No picture ever surpassed this most elaborate performance of Titiano. _It was one of King Charles the First’s collection; and there are two prints of it, an ancient one in wood, the other in copper-plate._ Another nativity, painted likewise with his usual delicacy and noble expression, by the same Titiano. Our Lady with her babe in her arms, near as big as the life, standing on the clouds, supported and attended by cherubs and angels. Under it there is a sight of the town of Bologna, and adjacent villages, all painted in his best manner, by Annibal Caracci. Susan tempted by the two old men, boldly and vigorously painted as big as the life, by Agostino Caracci. The slaughter of the innocents, containing nineteen figures as big as the life. A master-piece both for composition and colouring, by Valerio Castelli. Two children bigger than the life, representing holy Love the conqueror of profane Love; one of the best performances in his first manner, by Guido Reni. A lively figure of an Italian buffoon, drinking merrily, an half figure, as big as the life, by Annibal Caracci. The portrait of some Nobleman, a little more than a half length, by Francesco Torbido, commonly called, il Moro Veronese. _This painter was much admired by Titian himself._ A nativity of our Saviour. The figures about one foot high. The effect of the light that shines out of the babe, and irradiates the whole picture, is astonishing. This is a celebrated piece, by Cavalier Cavedone. A head as big as the life, representing our Saviour, painted in a bold manner, by Agostino Caracci. Apollo in the attitude of slaying Marsyas. The figures about two feet high, by Andrea Sacchi. Two small pictures, the one representing a mountebank drawing a tooth to a clown, surrounded by many spectators; the other exhibiting many people playing at balls upon the ground. Tho’ both these pictures are copious in figures, yet there is none of them but has some posture or meaning most lively and naturally expressed, by Michelangelo delle Battaglie. A small picture, containing our Lady and her babe, St. Joseph, and St. Catharine, half figures, finely painted, by Bartolomeo Schidone. A small picture, representing an angel that contemplates with a most afflicted look one of the nails with which our Saviour was crucified, holding it up in his hand, by Correggio.