Portrait of Hadrian on a modern bust
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
Head: Hadrianic period; bust 18th century
Material and technique:
Alabaster
Size:
cm 96
Inventory:
inv. MC0270
Opere del percorso
The hall
The dimensions and richness of decoration in this room suggest that it was the most important. Some traces of the frescoes which once covered its walls remain. They consisted of large scale images, articulated by columns and architectural elements, and, above the door, small landscape scenes were painted.
The room is also called the Room of Saint Peter because one of the surviving scenes depicts a cure operated by Saint Peter in front of the Temple in Jerusalem.