294 IV. Right Bank. ROME. e. The Vatiban ;
full of individuality, and a good specimen of the ugliness common
in portraits of the period, which at once Tepels and attraets the
spectator. * Titian, 'Madonna of S. Niccolò de' Frari', completed in
1523, and carried about 1770 to Rome, where the rounded upper
part of the picture was cut off. The energetic fidelity of the colour¬
ing, the dignity of the design and forms, and the lofty gravity of
the whole composition renders this one of the most important works
of the master's middle period. Guercino, St. Margaret of Cortona.
— Right long-wall: Spagnoletto, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence;
Guercino, Mary Magdalen; Bern. Pinturicchio, Coronation of the
Virgin, painted for the church della Fratta at Umbertide, 1503 ;
below are the Apostles, St. Francis, St. Bonaventura, and three
Franciscans. — Perugino, Resurreetion, probably painted with
some assistance from Raphael when a youth, the sleeping soldier
to the right is said to be Raphael's portrait, the one fleeing to the
left that of Perugino. — Coronation of the Virgin, designed by Ra¬
phael for the monastery of S. Maria di Monte Luce near Perugia,
the upper half painted by G. Romano, the lower by Francesco
Penni in 1525 ; Lo Spagna, Adoration of the infant Christ (formerly
in La Spineta near Todi). — *Raphael, Coronation of the Virgin,
painted in 1503 in Perugino's school, for S. Francesco at Perugia;
^Perugino, Madonna on a throne with Laurentius, Ludovicus, Her¬
culanus, and Constantius, the guardian saints of Perugia, painted
in 1496; Sassoferrato, Madonna. —End-wall: *Caravaggio, En-
tombment, one of the ablest works of the Naturalistic School. —
Window-wall : Niccolò (Alunno) da Foligno, Crucifixion of Christ
and Coronation of the Virgin, two large paintings in several sections.
Between these : *Melozzo da ForVi, Fresco from the former library
of the Vatican, representing Sixtus IV. the founder, with Card. Giul.
della Rovere (Julius II.) and Girolamo Riario ; before him kneels
Platina, prefect of the library. Gentile da Fabriano (?), Altar-piece
in three sections, representing the Coronation of the Virgin, the
Nativity, and the Adoration of the kings.
IV. Room. Entrance-wall: Valentin, Martyrdom of SS. Processus
and Martinianus; Guido Reni, Crucifixion of St. Peter; N. Poussin,
Martyrdom of St. Erasmus (mosaic copies of these three in St. Pe¬
ter's).— Right wall: Fed. Baroccio, Annunciation; A, Sacchi, Mass
of Gregory the Great (from St. Peter's); Baroccio, St. Michelina.—
Window-wall: *Moretto, Madonna with SS. Jerome and Bartholo-
mew ; Paolo Veronese, Vision of St. Helena. — Left wall : Guido
Reni, Madonna, with SS. Thomas and Jerome below; Correggio(f),
Christ in a nimbus; *A. Sacchi, St. Romuald.
Among the treasures of the Vatican, in the domain of painting,
must also be reckoned ""Raphael's Tapestry, exhibited along with
some other tapestries in the Galleria degli Arazzi, adjoining the
Galleria dei Candelabri (p. 298), and accessible, without special
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