after the battle. The throne-chair is intended for the Pope's use
only and is therefore turned towards the wall.
VI. Room. Entrance-wall: 122. Parmeggianino, Holy Family;
121. Innoc. da Imola, Same subject; 120, 123. Mabuse (?, not
Van Eyck), Two Madonnas surrounded by smaller circular pictures
of the seven joys and sorrows of the Virgin; of miniature-like
execution. Right wall: 130. Stefano da Zevio, Madonna; 132.
Giulio Romano, Madonna (comp. p. lxxvi); 134. Jacopo degli
Avanzi of Bologna, Crucifixion; 135. Giov. Santi (p. 144), Portrait
of a boy; 136. Bugiardini, Madonna. Exit-wall: 140. Sandro
Botticelli, Madonna (studio-piece); 141. Longhi, Madonna.
The Villa Colonna, or garden of the palace (comp. p. 241), for
which a esso must be obtained at the palace (Piazza Apostoli), is
open on Wed. 11-3 (entrance at No. 15 Via del Quirinale, p. 204; fee).
In the garden once stood a massive marble-wall with fragments of a
pediment, which the Roman antiquarians (Flavio Biondo, 1450) declared
to be the Torris Maecenatis, whence Nero witnessed the conflagration
of Rome (comp. 202). When the ruin was destroyed in 1620 for the
building of the Colouna and Rospigliose palaces, the legend was trans-
ferred to the Torre delle Milizie. Of the marble decoration, a corner-
piece of the pediment, a capital, and some fragments of the frieze only
are preserved, bearing ample witness to the grandeur of the building,
which was a temple of Serapis erected by Caracalla. To the annexes of
the temple also belong the large brickwalls and stairs descending to the
Campus Martius (Piazza della Pilotta). The terrace commands a good
survey of the town.
c. From the Piazza di Spagna to the Ponte Sant' Angelo.
The Omnibuses plying between the Piazza di Spagna and the Vatican
do not traverse the direct route described below, but go through side-
streets (comp. Appendix, No. 6, p. 6).
The chief side-street diverging from the N. portion of the Corso
is the Via Condotti (Pl. I, 18), which, with its W. continuation
the Via Fontanella di Borghese, forms the shortest route between
the strangers' quarter near the Piazza di Spagna and the Vatican
quarter (about 20 min. walk to the Ponte Sant' Angelo). The street
contains nothing of interest beyond its shops. It crosses the Corso
beside the Palazzo Ruspoli (p. 228). The recently widened Via
Tomacelli, a little to the right, leads to the Ponte Cavour (p. 244)
and the Prati di Castello (p. 359).
On the other side of the Corso the street takes the name of Via
Fontanella di Borghese (Pl. I, 18). Behind us the church of
Santissima Trinità de' Nouti (p. 182) forms a handsome termination
to the street. The chief building is the —
Palazzo Borghese (Pl. I, 15, 18), begun by order of Card.
Dezza in 1590 by Martino Lunghi the Elder, and completed by
Flaminio Ponzio (d. 1615) by order of Paul V., through whom it
came into the possession of the Borghese family. The Court is
surrounded by a tasteful colonnade in two stories, with clustered