Italy : handbook for travellers . The Vatican. ROME. V. Right Bank. 317 The *Braccio Nuovo, which we next visit (see ground-plan), was constructed by Rafael Stern under Paul VII. in saloon, roofed with tunnel vaulting, and lighted from above,is 77 yds. long and8/2yis. wide, and is embellished with fourteenancient columns of cipollino, giallo antico, alabaster, and Egyptiangranite. It contains 40 statues and about 80 busts. —Right: No. *, supposed to be one of those executed by Diogenes forthe Pantheon, restored by Thorvaldsen; 8. Gommodus in hunting- 1ft Of a ^m ^ g a3 U ^
Italy : handbook for travellers . The Vatican. ROME. V. Right Bank. 317 The *Braccio Nuovo, which we next visit (see ground-plan), was constructed by Rafael Stern under Paul VII. in saloon, roofed with tunnel vaulting, and lighted from above,is 77 yds. long and8/2yis. wide, and is embellished with fourteenancient columns of cipollino, giallo antico, alabaster, and Egyptiangranite. It contains 40 statues and about 80 busts. —Right: No. *, supposed to be one of those executed by Diogenes forthe Pantheon, restored by Thorvaldsen; 8. Gommodus in hunting- 1ft Of a ^m ^ g a3 U ^1 ° ffl M lii a 5 1 = ° u< ^ i^ Wi^. 318 V. Right Bank. ROME. The Vatican. costume with spear; 9. Barbarian head; 11. Silenus with theinfant Bacchus ; *14. Augustus, found in 1863 near Prima Porta inthe villa of Livia , one of the best statues of the emperor, bearingdistinct traces of painting (p. xxxixj. In front of it, on the ground,a mosaic from Tor-Marancio, Ulysses with the Sirens and Scylla;17. Statue of a physician (perhaps Antonius Musa, celebrated forhis cure of Augustus), under the form of ^Esculapius; 20. So-called Nerva (head modern); *23. So-called Pudicitia , from theVilla Mattei, head and right hand new ; 24. So-called Pollux , incoloured marble; 26, Titus, found with the statue of his daughterJulia (No. Ill, opposite) near the Lateran in 1828; 27. Medusa(also Nos. 40, 93, liO; the last in plaster) from Hadrians templeof Venus and Roma; 31. Priestess of Isis; 32, 33. Satyrs sitting;38. Ganymede (?), found at Ostia, attributed to Phaedimus (?J,fountain-figure; 39. (in the centre) beautiful black vase of bas
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