The association, known as the Lega Calcio, also issued an official warning to the club, but stopped short of docking it points in the league standings.

WSJ: Soccer Bosses Fine Roma

Although most of the works are of submasterpiece quality, the show contains some real treats, among them the everyday beauty of Silvestro Lega's "The Villino Batelli at Piagentina" (1863), the straightforward landscape drawings of Philadelphia illustrator Joseph Pennel (who's a revelation for me), and Sargent's magnificently understated 1913 portrait of Henry James.

WSJ: Americans in Florence | Palazzo Strozzi | The Florentine Mix | By Peter Plagens