Vault of
the 1900s with central panel of the 1600s
Stucco
frieze “Lorenzo de' Medici banishing vices” about 1800 by Francesco Massimiliano Laboureur (1767/1831)
“Bust of
Commodus (180/192)” end of the second century AD
Room
of the Zodiac
Vault and
lunettes “Zodiac signs” of the end of 1800s by Annibale
Brugnoli (1843/1915)
Frieze in
bas-relief “Triumph of Caesar” 1812 by Carlo Finelli
(1785/1853)
Room
of the Piedmont Wallpaper or of the factories of Paul V
It takes
its name from the 1750 silk wallpaper of the Ursuline Sisters of Turin, now removed
In 2006 the
frieze with “Papal building works alternating with virtues” of 1610 by Ranuccio Semprevivo and Cesare
Rossetti (active 1593/1620) was rediscovered
Painting “Galatea”
maybe by Giovanni Andrea Sirani
Chapel
of the Annunciation
1609 Flaminio Ponzio
(1560/1613) for Paul V Borghese (1605/21)
Frescoes of
the years 1609/10 by Guido Reni, including the
famous “Madonna of sewing”
Lunettes “Annunciation
to Joachim” by Antonio Carracci (about
1589/1618), son of Annibale, and “Presentation in the Temple” by Giovanni Lanfranco (1582/1647)
Left wall “Seven
putti” by Francesco Albani (1578/1660)
Room
of Tapestries
Room Setup
by Ignazio Perricci
Vault “Love
crowns the three graces” 1877 by Cesare Maccari
(1840/1919)
Four “Eighteenth-century
tapestries” of the manufactory of Beauvais from a model of François Boucher (1703/70)
In the
splays of the windows “Grotesque” beginning of the seventeenth century by Annibale Duranti with coat of arms of Pius VII
Chiaramonti (1800/23) added later
Two
splendid “Egyptian alabaster urns with lids” first century AD
Room
of Mirrors
Vault “Allegory
of the dance” 1876 by Ignazio Perricci
Dancing
Room
Very high
vault, so-called “Roof terrace of Ponzio”
It was
painted by Agostino Tassi (1578/1644) and Orazio Lomi aka Orazio Gentileschi (1563/1639) and was fully
repainted with the “Triumph of Italy” in 1873 by Girolamo
Magnani and Cecrope Barilli (1839/1911)
The carpet
is 340 m² (3,700 square feet) woven, just like those of the other rooms, in
situ by a company from Turin
Gallery
of Busts
Vault “Triumph
of candor” 1905 by Alessandro Palombi (active
since the end of the XIX/beginning of the XX century)
Five busts
with ancient heads
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