House and Garden 
THE VILLA FROM THE ILEX AVENUE 
A CORNER SHELTERED BY THE LEMON HOUSE 
ing the room as cool as possible. It has only 
one narrow outside wall, the one that looks 
over the garden to the south, and every pos¬ 
sible contrivance ot windows opening into 
passages above and of ventilators in the 
floor were resorted to in order to attain this 
object and certainly with success. There is 
still in the house a portrait of this Marchesa 
Corsini painted when she was thirty-six, which 
confirms the tradition of her enormous size. 
On the ceiling of this hall, Gherardini, the 
well-known artist, painted the arms of the 
family. The shield is supported and sur¬ 
rounded by robust, eighteenth century an¬ 
gels and cherubs ; some blowing trumpets, 
others struggling with heavy draperies, all 
working very hard and showing a consider¬ 
able amount of pink arm and leg. In 1780 
the Roman painter Conestabili decorated the 
walls of the same hall with views, more or 
less fanciful, of ruins in the neighborhood of 
Rome. In the same year some of the rooms 
were refurnished, and at the beginning of the 
