1st Room.—
class="hang"Entrance Wall:
Cartoon of stoning of Stephen: Giulio Romano.
Below this is the celebrated mosaic called Asarotos, representing an unswept floor after a banquet. It is inscribed with the name of its artist, Heraclitus, but is a copy from one of the two famous mosaics of Sosus of Pergamus (the other is "Pliny's Doves"). It was found on the Aventine in 1833 in the gardens of Servilius, and "probably adorned a dining-room where Cæsar may have supped with Servilia, the sister of Cato, and mother of Brutus." A similar pavement is alluded to by Statius:—
"Varias ubi picta per artes
Gaudet humus superare novis asarota figuris."
Sylv. i. 3, 55.
Left Wall:
Christ and St Thomas—a cartoon: Camuccini.
Window Wall:
The first sketch for the famous fresco of the Descent from the
Cross at the Trinità de' Monti: Daniele da Volterra.
On the right is the entrance of the
2nd Room.—
class="hang"Entrance Wall:
Annunciation: Cav. d' Arpino.
Right Wall:
George IV. of England (most strangely out of place): Lawrence.