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Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ect. 1. with eiglit columns of pink Bavenogranite. The floor is inlaid witliancient mosaics of fjladiators, dis-covered, in 1834, in the ruins of aEoman villa near Torre Nuova, one ofthe Borghese possessions on the ViaLabicana. Tliese mosaics, thoughbarbarous in an artistic sense as wellas in subject, are highly interestingfor the costumes, armour, and weaponsof the gladiators, aa also for theirinscribed names. Under tiie statueson the 1. and rt., and above the glassdoor, are Bacchic reliefs; over tlielattf;r, Curtius leaping into the gulf. The remaining sculptures are notremarkable. III.—56, 58 Two graceful drapedfemale statues of Graeco-Eouian work.61 Minos sacrificing to Poseidon—fragment of a relief; remainder in theLouvre. 62 Leda and the Swan. 64Relief: Ajax seizing Cassandra, be-side the image of Athene. 65, 69Eomau street-Arabs. 71 Tomb re-lief—Graeco-Roman. In the centrePrincess Pauline Borghese, sister ofNapoleon I., by Canova. Paintings;Dosso Dossi, Apollo and Daphne;
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nCTURE GALLERY AT CASINO BORGHESK—GROUND CaravacjQio, David witli the head of Medici. 103 Boy Hercules. Paiut-Goliath. ing: 7 Venus, by PacZoyajiwio. IV.—In the centre is a statue ofDavid, by Bernini. 78 Herma of Pan.79 Reliefs from a sarcophagus: fivelabours of Hercviles. Opposite isa similar relief with other five labours.Late debased art. 80 Frieze ofanother sarcophagus : Scene fiom theTrojan war. 87 Sarcophagus withTritons .and Sea Nymphs; on the waterin the centre is the head of a marinedeity. History fo Leto and the birtliof Artemis and Apollo. 100 Statueof Venus, of the type of the Venus dei V.—In the centre, Apollo andDaphne, by Bernini (1616). 116Three-sided base, with reliefs of Mer-cury, Venus, and Bacchus. 115 Boyplaying with a bird. 114 Boy crying. VI.—Galleria, 60 ft. long, openingon the garden, panelled with GiaUo diSiena, Marmo Jmezio (white with grevstripes), Fiore di Iersico (peach blos-som, mottled lilac), &c. Two columnsand their j^ilasters in oriental

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