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VILLA LANTE.
GIULIO ROMANO.
PLATES 19—20.
Giulio Romano lived on terms of great intimacy with Balthazar
Turini, of Pescia, datario 1 to Leo X., and built for that prelate a casino on
the Monte Gianicolo, where its summit, extending northwards, commands
one of the finest views of Rome. The same artist, assisted by his pupils,
likewise decorated the interior of this palazzino with historical frescoes,
of which Vasari has given us a description2, and the brothers Piranesi,
engravings3. They are principally scenes from the life of Numa Pom-
pilius, who was supposed to have been buried on the Monte Gianicolo.
This charming villa, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, became
the property of the Lante family, who substituted their arms for those of
the Turini ; in later times the Borghese family owned it for a short period,
but gave it up to the French nuns, called “ Les Dames du sacré Cœur,”
after having removed the historical paintings. The other productions of
Giulio’s fanciful pencil have either perished through the mistaken zeal
of the French sisterhood, or have been rendered absolutely inaccessible to
the public4. It has, therefore, been out of our power to obtain a correct
1 Datario, quello ehe presiede all’ ufficio cardinalizio in Roma, cosi detto dalla data delle suppliche
segnate. Alberti Datario, Ufficio nella corte di Roma, sopra la collazione de’beneficj. Lat. Datarius. Diet,
della Crusca.
2 T. x., p. 296.
3 Peintures de la villa Lante, de l’invention de Jules Romain, par les frères Piranesi ; des. par Th.
Piroli, of the complete work of Piranesi, Vmc- xxiv.
4 The parts formerly existing besides what has been described above, were :
1. A large hall with a very rich ceiling, curiously decorated with the arms and emblems of the
Medici, and by Cupids upon cars, drawn by animals both real and fabulous.
2. A corridor full of beautiful stuccoes.
3. A third room, called that of the Seasons, similar in its arrangement with the room of the
GIULIO ROMANO.
PLATES 19—20.
Giulio Romano lived on terms of great intimacy with Balthazar
Turini, of Pescia, datario 1 to Leo X., and built for that prelate a casino on
the Monte Gianicolo, where its summit, extending northwards, commands
one of the finest views of Rome. The same artist, assisted by his pupils,
likewise decorated the interior of this palazzino with historical frescoes,
of which Vasari has given us a description2, and the brothers Piranesi,
engravings3. They are principally scenes from the life of Numa Pom-
pilius, who was supposed to have been buried on the Monte Gianicolo.
This charming villa, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, became
the property of the Lante family, who substituted their arms for those of
the Turini ; in later times the Borghese family owned it for a short period,
but gave it up to the French nuns, called “ Les Dames du sacré Cœur,”
after having removed the historical paintings. The other productions of
Giulio’s fanciful pencil have either perished through the mistaken zeal
of the French sisterhood, or have been rendered absolutely inaccessible to
the public4. It has, therefore, been out of our power to obtain a correct
1 Datario, quello ehe presiede all’ ufficio cardinalizio in Roma, cosi detto dalla data delle suppliche
segnate. Alberti Datario, Ufficio nella corte di Roma, sopra la collazione de’beneficj. Lat. Datarius. Diet,
della Crusca.
2 T. x., p. 296.
3 Peintures de la villa Lante, de l’invention de Jules Romain, par les frères Piranesi ; des. par Th.
Piroli, of the complete work of Piranesi, Vmc- xxiv.
4 The parts formerly existing besides what has been described above, were :
1. A large hall with a very rich ceiling, curiously decorated with the arms and emblems of the
Medici, and by Cupids upon cars, drawn by animals both real and fabulous.
2. A corridor full of beautiful stuccoes.
3. A third room, called that of the Seasons, similar in its arrangement with the room of the