The 4th Room contains the _Fasti Consulares_, tables found near the temple of Minerva Chalcidica, and inscribed with the names of public officers from Romulus to Augustus. The 5th Room contains two bronze ducks (formerly shown as the sacred geese of the Capitol) and a female head--found in the gardens of Sallust, a bust of Medusa, by _Bernini_, and many others. The 6th, or Throne Room, hung with faded tapestry, has a frieze in fresco, by _Annibale Caracci_, representing the triumphs of Scipio Africanus. The 7th Room is painted by _Daniele da Volterra_(?) with the history of the Punic Wars. The 8th Room (now used as a passage) is a chapel, containing a lovely fresco, by _Pinturicchio_, of the Madonna and Child with Angels.
"The Madonna is seated enthroned, fronting the spectator; her large mantle forms a grand cast of drapery; the child on her lap sleeps in the loveliest attitude; she folds her hands and looks down, quiet, serious, and beautiful: in the clouds are two adoring angels."--_Kugler._
The four Evangelists are by _Caravaggio_; the pictures of Roman saints (Cecilia, Alexis, Eustachio, Francesca-Romana), by _Romanelli_.
By the same staircase, passing on the left a wonderful relief of the apotheosis of the wicked Faustina, we may arrive at the _Picture Gallery of the Capitol_ (which can also be approached by a separate staircase, entered from an alley at the back of the building), reached by two rooms inscribed with the names of the Roman Conservators from the middle of the sixteenth century. This gallery contains very few first-rate pictures, but has a beautiful St. Sebastian, by Guido, and several fine works of _Guercino_. The most noticeable pictures are--
2. Disembodied Spirit (unfinished): _Guido Reni_. 13. St. John Baptist: _Guercino_. 16. Mary Magdalene: _Guido Reni_. 20. The Cumæan Sibyl: _Domenichino_. 26. Mary Magdalene: _Tintoretto_. 27. Presentation in the Temple: _Fra. Bartolomeo_. 30. Holy Family: _Garofalo_. 52. Madonna and Saints: _Botticelli?_ 61. Portrait of himself: _Guido Reni_. 78. Madonna and Saints: _F. Francia_, 1513. 80. Portrait: _Velasquez_. 87. St. Augustine: _Giovanni Bellini_. 89. Romulus and Remus: _Rubens_.
100. Two male portraits: _Vandyke_. 104. Adoration of the Shepherds: _Mazzolino_. 106. Two Portraits: _Vandyke_. 116. St. Sebastian: _Guido Reni_. 117. Cleopatra and Augustus: _Guercino_. 119. St. Sebastian: _Lud. Caracci_. 128. Gipsy telling a fortune: _Caravaggio_. 132. Portrait: _Giovanni Bellini_. 134. Portrait of Michael Angelo: _M. Venusti?_ 136. Petrarch: _Gio. Bellini?_ 142. Nativity of the Virgin: _Albani_. 143. Sta. Petronilla: _Guercino_. An enormous picture, brought hither from St. Peter's, where it has been replaced by a mosaic copy. The composition is divided into two parts. The lower represents the burial of Sta. Petronilla, the upper the ascension of her spirit.