It is not very interesting and belongs to the wrong period, the seventeenth century.

It is open on fixed days, and free save that one manservant receives the visitor and another conducts him from room to room.

There are many pictures, but few of outstanding merit, and the authorship of some of these has been challenged.

Thus, the cartoon of Julius II, which is called a Raphael and seems to be the sketch for one of the well-known portraits at the Pitti, Uffizi, or our National Gallery, is held to be not by Raphael at all.

Among the pleasantest pictures are a Lippo Lippi Madonna and Child, a Filippino Lippi Madonna and Child with Angels, and a similar group by Botticelli; but one has a feeling that Carlo Dolci and Guido Reni are the true heroes of the house.