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The Cabinet is one of the smaller rooms of the New Hermitage.
Its walls are adorned by frescoes from a villa on the Palatine Hill
in Rome that depict the story of Venus, the goddess of love (school
of Raphael, late 1510s). They replicated on a larger scale the murals
that Raphael and his pupils created in 1516 in the bathroom of Cardinal
Bibiena in the Vatican. This room is home to one of the Hermitage's
masterpieces - Michelangelo's sculpture of a Crouching Boy.
Originally it was intended for the Medici chapel in the Church of
San Lorenzo in Florence, but was not included in the final version
of the decoration of that sepulchre. |
