Tarquinius Priscus founds the Temple of Jupiter on the Campidoglio

This belonged to the same frieze as the Justice of Zaleucus, painted by Perino del Vaga in 1521 for the Roman house of the papal jurist Melchiorre Baldassini. The subject comes from Livy. Tarquinius Priscus, one of Rome's early kings, founds the great temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline hill. In the 19th century the scene was detached from the wall and transferred to canvas, which is how a fragment of a Roman frieze ended up in Florence. Perino staged the crowd and the buildings the way he had learned working under Raphael in the Vatican. At the center the king watches an architect trace the temple's foundations straight onto the ground, while trumpeters in the background mark the day.