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.
