of the House has dissolved it by an alliance with the King of the two Sicilies, who has conveyed every thing that was moveable to Naples.

Annibal spent the greatest part of his life in ornamenting the Gallery, and he is said to have died of mortification, on being inadequately rewarded by Cardinal Farnese.

The vaulted Ceiling is divided into seven square compartments, and eight Rounds, supported by Academic Figures, in all imaginable attitudes.

In the Compartments are represented the Triumph of Bacchus and AriadnePan offering the wool of his Flocks to Diana-Paris receiving from Mercury 3 E

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the golden apple-Aurora and Cephalus -Venus and Anchises-Hercules and Iole, with many other lascivious stories drawn from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, and other Fables of ancient Mythology.

THE Palazzo Barberini, built by the Nephew of Urban VIII. is a prodigious Edifice containing a valuable Library and an immense Collection of Painting and Sculpture.

The Ceiling of the great Hall was painted by Pietro da Cortona with the Apotheosis of Urban, and in the apartments I particularly recollect two heads of Modesty and Vanity, drawn together, by Leonardo da Vinci-a whole-length Magdalen of Guido-and half-lengths

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of the four Evangelists by Guercino da Cento.

On the ground floor are several Rooms lined with Statuary, among which are Bustos of Marius and Sylla-but the celebrated sleeping Faun from the Mausoleum of Adrian has been lately sold, or presented to the King of Spain.

THE Palazzo Doria built, if I recollect right, under the patronage of Innocent X. [Pamfili] from whose Family it passed by marriage to the Dorias, fronts the Corso, and has been built with more attention to convenience than is usual in the Palaces of Italy.

Its Gallery runs round the four sides of a Square, near the entrance of which

is an aerial Claude-the finest now remaining in Rome-next to which a Landscape sketched by Domenichino grates the eye of the Connoisseur. There are several other Claudes in this Gallery, though none of them are so lightly touched by his magic hand-fine Portraits of Luther and Calvin, by Titian, &c. &c.

In one of the leading Apartments is a Head of Christ, crowned with thorns, and bearing the cross, with a look of patient suffering that I shall never forget. It was painted by Andrea Mantegna, the Master of Michael Angelo.

THE Palazzo Braschi, the last Palace built in Rome, and indeed not yet finished, though it has been in hand ever

since the beginning of the pontificate of Pius VI. is built on one side of the

Piazza Navona, in the centre of modern Rome.

Here the Nephew of the late Popeimmured in a corner of the unfinished Pile, now spends with profusion, what had been gained by rapacity, in decorating with all the elegancies of Painting and Sculpture, a Palace he can himself hardly ever expect to inhabit.

The Great Stair-Case however is now nearly finished, and is probably the most expensive and magnificent apartment of the size that ever was adorned with the perfections of Art.

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