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HYLAND visual as well as measured, and the restful restraint of color of the Great Hall make it a kind of interior Elysium, a realm of afterlife for mortals related to or chosen by gods for their righteousness or heroism. And indeed, there are just such heroes who from the beginning have inhabited this room, with its aura of the sacred: four antique statues—of Livia, a lady of the third century AD, a Roman magistrate and a Roman in a toga—stand upon pale gray and white pedestals designed by Adam and executed by Joseph Rose. At either end repose statues of stately nobility. The bronze Dying Gaul is by Valadier, a copy of the original in the Capitoline Museum, its bronze cast in Rome and onyx color achieved by immersion in water for nine years. Opposite, in the half rotunda, stands Apollo Belvedere, copied by John Cheere from the original in the Vatican, Apollo triumphant in his defense of the Temple of Delphi. Antique classical busts—Socrates and Marcus Aurelius among them—are juxtaposed with contemporaries, the 1st Duke of Northumberland by Van Nost and William Pitt the younger by Nollekens. This conflation of latter day nobles with ancient heroes reminds us of Renaissance iconography, like that seen at Villa Farnese, ennobling the deeds of the owners

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