PALACES.  -'375

nature  to  genii,  and  therefore  peopled  the   earth  with
genii."

The  best  pictures  in  this  collection  are  —  the  beauti-
ful Cumaean  Sibyl,  and  the  Chase  of  Diana,  by  Domeni-
chino — a  Deposition  from  the  Cross,  executed  by  Ra-
phael at  Perugia,  before  he  had  thoroughly  divested
himself  of  the  stiff  manner  of  his  master  Perugino;  though,
according  to  Lanzi,  the  heads,  in  this  picture,  "  are
among  the  first  to  be  found,  after  the  revival  of  art,
whose  beauty  is  unimpaired  by  depth  of  sorrow  and  in-
tensity of  grief" — the  Profane  and  Divine  Love,  and
Cupid  with  the  Three  Graces,  by  Titian,  which  two
pieces  may  serve  to  exemplify  the  remark,  that  the  Ve-
netian painters  seldom  give  us  more  than  the  bodies
either  of  men  or  women — two  small  heads  of  the  Sa-
viour and  Virgin,  together  with  a  Virgin  and  Child,  by
Carlo  Dolci — and  an  exquisite  landscape  with  cattle,  by
Paul  Potter.
Monte  Cavallo. —  The  gardens  of  this  immense
pile — one  of  the  papal  palaces — are  at  least  a  mile  in
circuit;  and  being  laid  out  with  shady  ever-green  walks,
which  afford  a  complete  protection  against  the  sun,  they
form  a  most  delightful  retreat  during  the  heats  of  sum-
mer.
In  the  chapel  attached  to  this  palace  is  an  Annuncia-
tion,  by  Guido,  "  in  the  sweetest  style  of  this  sweet
painter.  But  Guido's  Mary,  sweet  as  she  is,  will  never
do  after  the  Mary  of  Raphael; — and  then,  the  eternal
blue  mantel,  in  which  Guido  wraps  his  females,  reminds


376  ROME.
