Wanderings in the Roman campagna . an additional proofthat it dates from the sameperiod, and that plan anddecorations were proba-bly intrusted by the primeminister to his mastersfavorite artists. As regards the portraitbusts of eminent men, in-scribed with their names, it is true that they are occasionally found, single or incouples, on the sites of old Roman gardens; but no-where in such numbers and in such distinct iconogra-phic sets as at Tibur. The first of these portrait galleriesAvas discovered at the end of the fifteenth century inHadrians villa. Some of the hermae perished in the lime-
Wanderings in the Roman campagna . an additional proofthat it dates from the sameperiod, and that plan anddecorations were proba-bly intrusted by the primeminister to his mastersfavorite artists. As regards the portraitbusts of eminent men, in-scribed with their names, it is true that they are occasionally found, single or incouples, on the sites of old Roman gardens; but no-where in such numbers and in such distinct iconogra-phic sets as at Tibur. The first of these portrait galleriesAvas discovered at the end of the fifteenth century inHadrians villa. Some of the hermae perished in the lime-kilns ; nine were removed to a rural chapel of the Virginon the road to Tivoli,. where they were described byMartin Sieder in 1503; five more were discovered in 1550by Giambattista Altoviti, son of Bindo the banker, andsold to Pope Julius III, to be set up at the crossings ofthe garden paths of the Villa Giulia outside the Portadel Popolo. The second set was found in a district onthe right bank of the Anio, called i Pesoni, among. !la Lanciani del. Fragment of a frieze with the crypticsignature of Saurus and Batrachus 86 AVANDERINGS IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA the remains of a villa supposed to have belonged to theCalpurnii Pisones. The third is the one from M;ecenassvilla at Carciano, now exhibited in the Sala delle Museat the Vatican. In Rome there were at least two iconographic sets, —one in the gardens of the same statesman on the Esqui-line (the Horti Meeceniani), and one in the Gardens ofCsesar on the Janiculum. I have myself been instru-mental in recovering many hermse from both places,such as the one bearing the name of Anacreon (ANAKPEQNAYPIKOC) found in 1884 in a hall of basilica! typein the lower part of the Horti Caesaris, which had es-caped discovery by former explorers, such as the Mar-chese Vittori and the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese inthe sixteenth century and Giambattista Guidi, the lastinspector of anticjuities under Pius IX, in 1859. Thefinding of the former is t
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