Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . ita sur cet exploit extraordinaire, et il ne sc brouillapoint avec lui. En nous promenant dans les janlins Albani, le prince dePalestriue me montra ce lamenx ob61isqtie.—Memoires de Madame de Oenlis,vol. til. The scene from the garden-terrace was once among the loveliestof Roman pictures, the view of the delicate-tinted Sabine mountains—Monte Gennaro, with the Monticelli beneath it—and in themiddle distance the churches of S. Agnese and S. Costanza,relieved by the dark cypresses and a graceful fountain of the villa;now, nothing is to be
Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . ita sur cet exploit extraordinaire, et il ne sc brouillapoint avec lui. En nous promenant dans les janlins Albani, le prince dePalestriue me montra ce lamenx ob61isqtie.—Memoires de Madame de Oenlis,vol. til. The scene from the garden-terrace was once among the loveliestof Roman pictures, the view of the delicate-tinted Sabine mountains—Monte Gennaro, with the Monticelli beneath it—and in themiddle distance the churches of S. Agnese and S. Costanza,relieved by the dark cypresses and a graceful fountain of the villa;now, nothing is to be seen for a number of those huge box-likejerry-built barracks which render portions of modern Romemost contoniptible. The Casino, which is, in fact, a palace, is remarkable as havingbeen built from Cardinal Albanis own designs. Carlo Marchionnihaving been only employed to see that they were carried out. llero is a villa of exquisite design, planned by a profound Cardinal Albani, having spent bis life In collectiDg ancient iii:r.\j]-:s, eurvdici:, and Okini:us (Attic Rkliki )(Villa Albani) Walks in Borne 339 formed such porticoes and such saloons to receive it as an old Roman wouldhave done ; porticoes where the statues stood free upon the pavementbetween columns proportioned to their statm-e ; saloons which were notstocked but embellished with families of allied statues, and seemed fallwithout a crowd. Here Winckelmann i^rew into an antiquary under thecardinals patronage and instruction ; and here he projected his history ofart, which brings this collection continually into view.—Forsyths Italy. The collection of sculptures is much reduced since the Frenchinvasion, when 294 of the finest specimens were carried off byNapoleon to Paris, where they were sold by Prince Albani upontheir restoration in 1815, as he was unwilling to bear the expense oftheir transport. Many of them are now at Munich. The greaternumber of the remaining statues are of lit
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