Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the CampagnaForbes, S. Russell
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Rambles in Rome: An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna
Forbes, S. Russell
Art -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks; Rome -- Antiquities
_Between the windows_, portraits of the Popes of the time, by the
artist of the subject below. The lower part of the walls is painted in
imitation of drapery, over which were hung on grand ceremonies
tapestries from Raphael's cartoons.
_On the side walls_ are scenes from the life of Moses typical of the
life of our Lord. _On entering, to the right_--
TYPE. FULFILMENT.
Moses and Zipporah going down Baptism of Christ in Jordan.
into Egypt. By Luca Signorelli. By Perugino.
Moses slaying the Egyptian. Our Lord being tempted. By
Driving away the shepherds. Sandro Botticelli.
The Lord appearing in the
burning bush. By Sandro
Botticelli.
Pharaoh overwhelmed in the Red Christ calling Peter and
Sea. By Cosimo Rosselli. Andrew. By Dom Ghirlandajo.
Moses receiving the tables of The Sermon on the Mount. By
the law. Destruction of the Cosimo Rosselli.
Golden Calf. By Cosimo Rosselli.
Destruction of Korah, Dathan, Christ giving unto Peter "the
and Abiram, and the sons keys of the kingdom of heaven"
of Aaron. By Sandro Botticelli. (Matt. xvi. 19). By Perugino.
Death of Moses. Reading of the The Last Supper. By Cosimo
law. By Luca Signorelli. Rosselli.
The Archangel contending about Christ's Resurrection. By Dom
the body of Moses.[7] By Ghirlandajo.
Francesco Salviati.
_Apply to the custodi of the Sistine Chapel to visit the Pauline
Chapel, which is entered from the_
SALA REGIA,
built as an audience hall for the ambassadors to the Papal Court. It
is decorated with frescoes representing different important events in
Papal history.
THE PAULINE CHAPEL
was erected by Paul III. Its walls are painted in fresco, the
conversion of S. Paul and the execution of S. Peter being by Michael
Angelo. The painted roof and the portraits of twenty-eight Popes are
by Lorenzo Sabatini and Frederigo Zucchero.
_Retracing our steps through the Sistine Chapel, and going up a narrow
stair, we enter, through a small white door, two rooms containing_
GALLERY OF MODERN PAINTINGS.
(_First Room, right._)
1. Beatitude of Benedict of Urbino (Capuchin).--Guido Guidi, 1865. He
is being presented, with other missionaries, to Clement VIII.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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