The _Gallery_ is shown every day, except Sundays and holidays, from 11 to 3. It is entered by the left wing. The first room is a fine, gloomy old hall, containing the family dais, and hung with decaying Colonna portraits. Then come three rooms covered with tapestries, the last containing a pretty statue of a girl, sometimes called Niobe. Hence we reach the pictures. The _1st Room_ has an interesting collection of the early schools, including Madonnas of _Filippo Lippi_; _Luca Longhi_; _Botticelli_; _Gentile da Fabriano_; _Innocenza da Imola_; a curious Crucifixion, by _Jacopo d'Avanzo_; and a portrait by _Giovanni Sanzio_, father of Raphael. The ceiling of the _3rd Room_ has a fresco, by _Battoni_ and _Luti_, of the apotheosis of Martin V. (Oddone Colonna, 1417--24). Among its pictures, are St. Bernard, _Giovanni Bellini_; Onuphrius Pavinius, _Titian_; Holy Family, _Bronzino_; Peasant dining, _Annibale Caracci_; St. Jerome, _Spagna_; Portrait, _Paul Veronese_; Holy Family, _Bonifazio_. Hence we enter the _Great Hall_, a truly grand room, hung with mirrors and painted with flowers by _Mario de' Fiori_, and with genii by _Maratta_. The statues here are unimportant. The ceiling is adorned with paintings, by _Coli_ and _Gherardi_, of the battle of Lepanto, Oct. 8, 1571, which Marc-Antonio Colonna assisted in gaining. The best pictures are the family portraits:--Federigo Colonna, _Sustermanns_; Don Carlo Colonna, _Vandyke_; Card. Pompeio Colonna, _Lorenzo Lotto_; Vittoria Colonna, _Muziano_; Lucrezia Colonna, _Vandyke_; Pompeio Colonna, _Agostino Caracci_; Giacomo Sciarra Colonna, _Giorgione_. We may also notice an extraordinary picture of the Madonna rescuing a child from a demon, by _Niccolo d'Alunno_, with a double portrait, by _Tintoret_, on the right wall, and a Holy Family of _Palma Vecchio_ at the end of the gallery. Near the entrance are some glorious old cabinets, inlaid with ivory and lapis-lazuli. On the steps leading to the upper end of the hall is a bomb left on the spot where it fell during the siege of Rome in 1848. (Through the palace access may be obtained to the beautiful Colonna Gardens; but as they are generally visited from the Quirinal, they will be noticed in the description of that hill.) "On parle d'un Pierre Colonna, dépouillé de tous ses biens en 1100 par le pape Pascal II. Il fallait que la famille fût déjà passablement ancienne, car les grandes fortunes ne s'élèvent pas en un jour."--_About._ "Si n'etoit le différent des Ursins et des Colonnois (Orsini and Colonna) la terre de l'Eglise seroit la plus heureuse habitation pour les subjects, qui soit en tout le monde."--_Philippe de Comines._ 1500. "Gloriosa Colonna, in cui s' appoggia Nostra speranza, e'l gran nome Latino, Ch'ancor non torte del vero cammino L'ira di Giove per ventosa pioggia." _Petrarca, Sonnetto_ X.