Room I offers the Museum's most complete picture of great composers and their work. A portrait by Vincenzo Camuccini depicts the young Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868); there is alarge oil painting by Eleuterio Pagliano of Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886), a portrait of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) and busts of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and Jules Massenet (1842-1912), together with medallions carrying the effigies of Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) and Giovanni Simone Mayr (1763-1845j. Vincenzo Bellini (1805-1835) is depicted in an anonymous tempera portrait (ca.1825) and in a bronze statue taken from an original plas-ter cast by A. Borghi, for the marble statue that stands in the foyer of the Opera House. The main exponents of the so-called "Young School" are also represented: Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Umberto Giordano (1867-1948) in pastel drawings by Arturo Rietti, Francesco Cilea (1866-1950) in a sculpture by Petrone; Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) in two portraits by Piatti and Cocchi; and Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857- 1919) in a painting by A. Pasinetti. The room also includes a bust of Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes, and documents and other curios relating to two great conductors -Arturo Toscanini and Victor De Sabata - are displayed in the show-cases in Rooms I and II.