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the inside the decorations were added and the rooms on the second floor
(the bridal suite) were embellished during two different periods.
The first dates to about the second decade of the 18th century and refers
to the rooms in the east wing that were decorated with lacquered fixtures
and boiseries and were frescoed between 1720 and 1738 by Sebastiano Galeotti
with scenes depicting: Allegory of the element Water; Allegory of the
element Earth; the marriage of Juno and Jove; the fall of Icarus with
pairs of Satyrs (Icarus Room).
The
refined plasterers who collaborated with Galeotti remain unknown although
the style is that of Antonio Ferraboschi and Carlo Bossi.
Giovanni
Bolla was commissioned in 1719-20 to paint copies from Farnese and Sanvitale
portraits and Sanvitale portraits from life.
A
later series of decorations was added around 1787 and was carried out
mainly in the rooms along the façade. A number of important artists
worked on the building at this time, including fresco painters and plasterers
like Domenico Muzzi, the Albertolli brothers, Cousinet and Bossi, decorating
the ballroom, the dining room and the music room, in particular.
In the lunettes along the walls of one of the great halls flanking the
corridor on the ground floor, there are traces of frescoes in the Baglioni
style with Parted curtains revealing landscapes and Festoons of fruit
and cherubs, that can be dated to the last decades of the 16th
century or early 17th. Of particular interest at the center
of the ceiling in the rooms on the ground floor areApollo
and the Musical Muses (1564 ca.) by Jacopo Bertoja
and Allegorical
Frescoes of the Sanvitale Home (1719-20 ca.) by Giovanni Bolla and Domenico
Aldrovandini.
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