THE EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS.
The new Palace of Fine Arts is on the right, about half-way down. In it is held an annual exhibition of modern works of art of every description. Admission, one lira; Sundays, fifty centesimi. It occupies a space of 22,030 square mètres—the permanent building being 5,280 square mètres; the Crystal Hall, 1,250 square mètres; the gardens, 5,000 square mètres; and the temporary galleries, 10,500 square mètres. The palace comprises two floors, and may be entered from the Via Nazionale, Via Genova, and Via del Quirinale. The main front is 25 mètres high and 60 long. Sixteen statues decorate the top of the façade, the work of Roman artists.
On the top of the pediment is a group, Italy crowning Art, by Adalberto Cencetti, the groups in relief on the face being the Finding of the Laocoon Group, by Filippo Ferrari, and Carrying Cimabue's Madonna in Triumph, by Puntoni.
Signor Pio Piacentini designed the edifice; and the works have been carried out with the assistance of the architect Augusto Fallani, at a cost of two and a half million lire.
On the façade of the entrance is the inscription:—
ESPOSIZIONE
DI BELLE ARTI
NEL' ANNO MDCCCLXXXII
QUINTO DEL REGNO
DI
UMBERTO I.
IL COMUNE DI ROMA
EDIFICIO
CONTRIBUENDO
STATO E PROVINCIA.
From Santa Maria degli Angeli we turn to the right. At the corner of the Piazza S. Bernardo is the