Were the ascription made to Benvenuto Cellini, we might have more easily accepted it.

But Cellini would certainly have enlarged upon so important a piece of sculpture in his Memoirs.

If then we are left to mere conjecture, it would be convenient to suggest Guglielmo della Porta, who executed the Farnese monument in S.
Peter's.
IV While still a Cardinal, Paul III.

began to rebuild the old palace of the Farnesi on the Tiber shore.

It closes one end of the great open space called the Campo di Fiore, and stands opposite to the Villa Farnesina, on the right bank of the river.