The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . the capital of a column of the PorticusEventus Boni near the Stagnum Agrippae.^ In the sameconnexion Vacca says: I remember also that while theTheatine Fathers were laying the foundations of thechurch of S. Andrea della Valle they found a part of acolumn of grey granite forty palms long. This was sawninto several pieces, and one of them was turned into thethreshold of the main door of the church. Vacca further throws light on the disappearance ofthe last remains of the temple of Jupiter OptimusMaximus. Upon the Tarpei
The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . the capital of a column of the PorticusEventus Boni near the Stagnum Agrippae.^ In the sameconnexion Vacca says: I remember also that while theTheatine Fathers were laying the foundations of thechurch of S. Andrea della Valle they found a part of acolumn of grey granite forty palms long. This was sawninto several pieces, and one of them was turned into thethreshold of the main door of the church. Vacca further throws light on the disappearance ofthe last remains of the temple of Jupiter OptimusMaximus. Upon the Tarpeian rock behind thePalazzo dei Conservatori, he says, several columns ofPentelic marble were found. Their capitals were solarge that I was able to carve out of one the lionwhich is now in the loggia of the Villa Medici facingthe garden. The others were used by Vincenzo deRossi for the statues of the prophets and other figures 1 See p. 3. 260 DESTRUCTION OF ANCIENT ROME which adorn the chapel of Cardinal Cesi in the churchof S. Maria della Pace (Fig. 45). No fragment of the. Fig. 45,— The Cesi chapel in the church of 8. Maria della Pace, built withPentelic marble from the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus. entablature was found, but as the building was close tothe edge of the Tarpeian rock I suspect that its marblesmust have fallen over the precipice (Mem. 64). MODERN USE OF ANCIENT MARBLES 261 The correctness of this surmise was proved in 1780,one hundred and eighty years after the publication ofVaccas Memoirs. In that year, says Montagnani, great blocks of entablature of beautiful workmanshipwere found under the house at No. 13 Via Montanara,belonging to Duke Lante della Rovere. The frieze wasornamented with festoons fastened to the heads of were destroyed on the spot before any one couldmake a sketch of them. As this house of Duke Lantestands at the foot of the Capitoline hillj I have nodoubt that the marbles belong to the temple mentionedby Vacca. Toward the midd
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