The physical plan of the exhibition is intended to lead our eye directly to the exhibition's theme-piece, Sebastiano's Raising of Lazarus. The engraving by Raimondi with the introductory text and manuscript (within a display case), considered along with Sebastiano's Lazarus act as bookends to the whole exhibtion. The statue of Tiberius mirrors the figure of Christ in Sebastiano's painting, while the three portraits on the left wall are intended to help the viewer analyse Sebastiano's portraiture through the lens of classical rhetoric by using Cicero's terms of persuasive speech: to prove, to charm, to persuade.
