The 1st Room entered is a great hall—to which pictures are removed for copying. It contains four fine sarcophagi, with reliefs of the Hunt of Meleager, the Story of Marsyas, Endymion and Diana, and a Bacchic procession. Of two ancient circular altars, one serves as the pedestal of a bearded Dionysus. The pictures are chiefly landscapes, of the school of Poussin and Salvator Rosa,—that of the Deluge is by Ippolito Scarsellino.
2nd Room.—In the centre a Centaur (restored), of basalt and rosso-antico. On either side groups of boys playing.
Pictures:—
4. Caritas Romana: Valentin.
5. Circumcision: Giov. Bellini?
7. Madonna and Saints: Basaiti.
15. Temptations of St. Anthony: Scuola di Mantegna.
19. St. John in the Desert: Guercino?
35. Birth of St. John: Vittore Pisanello.
21. Spozalizio: V. Pisanello.
23. St. Sylvester before Maximin II.: Pesellino.
24. Madonna and Child: F. Francia?
28. Annunciation: Fil. Lippi.
29. St. Sylvester and the Dragon: Pesellino (see the account of Sta. Maria Liberatrice). 33. St. Agnes on the burning pile: Guercino.
37. Magdalen: Copy of the Titian in the Pitti Palace.
4th Room.—
A bust of Innocent X. (with whose ill-acquired wealth this palace was built) in rosso-antico, with a bronze head: Bernini.
5th Room.—
17. The Money-changers: Quentin Matsys.
25. St. Joseph: Guercino. In the centre, a group of Jacob wrestling with the Angel: School of Bernini.
6th Room.—
8. Portrait of Olympia Maldacchini, the sister-in-law of Innocent X., who ruled Rome in his time.
13. Madonna: Carlo Maratta.
30. Sketch of a Boy: Incognito.
From this room we enter a small cabinet, hung with pictures of Breughel and Fiammingo, and containing a bust by Algardi, of Olympia Maldacchini-Pamfili, who built the Villa Doria Pamfili for her son.
7th Room.—
8. Belisarius in the desert: Salvator Rosa.
19. Slaughter of the Innocents: Mazzolino.
We now enter the Galleries—which begin towards the left—