On Sunday after vespers at S Peters - this church I quite hated & thought it hideous throughout and that it did not even look vast but mere pompous & empty & i felt annoyed at it and hated it, and so went to the Pantheon which I thought glorious. Monday was troublesome for places were shut & silly fiesta was going on - much trouble to see the Sistine - went to the Capitoline Museum 2 o'clock saw the Sistine Chapel at last - the ...of frescoes much exaggerated & their obscurity - the judgement only far greater suffered - the colours of them quite beautiful - gold has been used very little to heighten the lights as in the lower pictures of the other painters - the dress of Judith's maid is of a rich yellow that the resemblance to gold is perfect - the reds are like the reds in the Raphael cartoon in London & the other much resemble them - the skies in the picture of subjects have been sorly (?) gradated from gray blue to white. Haman is perfect and quite clear (of which the photograph is blurred) & the sleeping Adam quite fair (.... the photograph & dark) the Chapel is perfect in proportion and covered with painting & the tone is the same everywhere - whoever first set the key of colour has been followed by the succeeding painter, & the roof is the same ... & every painter who has worked in it has used his utmost power. The Baptism by Perugino is far beyond any other work I have seen by him - perfect in colour and exquisite in design - also there are 3 Botticellis of which the Temptation of Christ seemed the most wonderful all these three are beyond hands(?) for sweetness and design & invention & they are highly finished the colour of them is beyond any colour I have ever seen, gold is delicately shredded into the lights that the most unearthly effects are given and there are 2 Siignorellis as beautiful as anything in the world