All things beneath my hand in scattered ruin lie. Witness these three whose might can none deny. My land, my loved ones, ever I defend, And Death, to others Foe, to me is friend. Speak, Goddess, from thy throne. "Manners my right. To cool men's souls and balance passion's might. With me as guide self-conquest thou shalt learn, Who then will dare that master will to spurn." The name of each of the standing figures is clearly recorded at his feet. Between these two great groups on a pilaster is the portrait of Perugino with this inscription: =PETRVS PERVSINVS EGREGIVS PICTOR.= PERDITA SI FUERAT PINGENDI HIS RETULIT ARTEM; SI NUSQUAM INVENTA EST HACTENUS IPSE DEDIT. On the end wall are representations of =The Transfiguration and Nativity.= In the former Our Lord is in the clouds in a mandorla of rays, and His hands are raised in benediction. On either side kneel Moses and Elias, and in the sky are the words: =HIC EST FILIVS MEVS DILECTVS.= On the ground gazing up, but shading their faces from the glory, are the three disciples. In the "Nativity" the divine Child is on the ground, and around, under a canopy raised on six columns, are kneeling the Madonna, St. Joseph, and the shepherds. There are cattle nearby, and above, in the heavens, three angels singing, and above their heads the words: =GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO.= On the right wall is a =Group of Prophets and Sibyls=, Isaiah, Moses, Daniel, David, and Jeremiah, and opposite to them the Persian, Cumæan, Libyan, Tyburtine, and Delphic sibyls. Above them, in the clouds, surrounded by cherubs and adoring angels, is a representation of =The Eternal Father=. Near the door is a fine standing figure of =Cato=, and in the ceiling are medallions of the deities representing the seven planets set amidst a profusion of diversified arabesques. There are studies in the Uffizi for several of the figures in the Cambio: Socrates (251, 415), Pericles (252, 400), "Moses" (252, 401), "The Cumean Sibyl" (256, 309), "Venus and Cupid" (253, 402), "The Infant Christ" (_verso_ of, 252, 401). ROME, VATICAN, CAPPELLA SISTINA. =St. Peter receiving the Keys.= There is a study in the Uffizi, 252, 416, for one of the heads in this fresco. ROME, VATICAN, STANZA DELL' INCENDIO. The =CEILING= painted by Perugino was spared by Raphael in 1508 when Pope Julius II. ordered the destruction of all existing work in order that Raphael might entirely complete the decoration. The ceiling is in four circular compartments. The first represents, within a mandorla of cherubs, and surrounded with angels the Eternal Father holding the globe and giving benediction. The second, the Saviour in glory, within a mandorla, and surrounded with angels and cherubs.