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
_Open on Tuesdays from 12 till 4. Permission to be obtained of the
bankers_ Messrs. Spada and Co., 11 Via Condotti. The museum contains a
fine collection of statues, busts, sarcophagi, &c. The grounds are
splendid, and numerous antique statues are dispersed through them.
_Catalogues can be obtained of the custodian._
GRAND PORTICO.--51. Augustus; 79. Agrippina; 61. Faustina (?); 72.
Marcus Aurelius; 82. Hadrian.
VESTIBULE.--19. Caryatid, by Criton and Nicholaus of Athens.
LEFT GALLERY.--48. Alexander; 45. Scipio; 40. Hannibal; 46. Brutus
(?); 110. Faun.
RIGHT GALLERY.--93. Juno; 106. Faun and Bacchus; 120. Son of Augustus;
118. Seneca; 112. Numa; 143. Livia sacrificing. Vase, with the
labours of Hercules, found at his temple on the Via Appia. 222.
Relief--the Nile.
_Staircase from Vestibule._--891. Rome Triumphant; 885. Relief--the
Death of the Children of Niobe; 893. Antoninus Pius Distributing Corn
(?); 894. Orphan Children of Faustina (?). (See page 44.)
UPPER FLOOR, FIRST ROOM.--905. Apollo; 906. An Athlete; 915. Cupid.
NOBLE GALLERY.--Reliefs; 1008. Hercules and the Hesperides; 1009.
Dædalus and Icarus; 1010. A Sacrifice; 1013. Antonius holding a Horse;
1018. Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus, Faustina, and Rome; 1014. Venus,
Diana, Apollo, and Victory sacrificing.
LEFT ROOM.--1013. Relief--Antinoüs Crowned with the Lotus Flower,
_very beautiful_.
SECOND ROOM.--952. Apollo Sauroctonos, by Praxiteles.
_Beyond the villa is the_
CATACOMB OF S. PRISCILLA.
Priscilla _is said_ to be the Christian name of the mother of Pudens.
Anastasius (xxxi. 31) says this cemetery was made by Bishop Marcellus,
A.D. 307. There is a burial vault here said to be the tomb of the
family of Pudens; it has some rude frescoes--a woman coming out of a
house; an orante in act of prayer, called a Madonna; a woman between
two men, twice over. Other frescoes, in different chambers, are the
Three Jews in the Fiery Furnace; Good Shepherd; four orantes and
doves; seven men carrying a barrel, whilst two others lie on the
ground. Scratched on the wall is ORATIUS D. NOBILIBUS ANTONIUS BOSIUS;
and underneath was a marble slab--BONAVIÆ CONJUGI SANCTISSIMAE; a Good
Shepherd; a female figure seated, with a child in her lap, looking
towards a male figure with hands extended, called the Virgin and
Isaiah (query, Joseph)--between them is a star. This is the earliest
painting of the Virgin known.
_Leaving the catacomb, the hill on the left, beyond, was the site of_
ANTEMNÆ,
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