Anteroom adjacent to the Gallery

Like many other rooms on the main floor, this room, called in the old inventories as “Antechamber adjacent to the Gallery of Statues”, has a rich fresco wall decoration consisting of a series of landscape views framed by a rich architectural structure.
The latter consists of a continuous base decorated with geometric squares surmounted by cruciform pillars adorned with the symbolic representation of the Wings, which represents the noble Arese family. A rich painted frieze, now almost completely gone, completes the decoration.

The depicted landscapes are not in perfect condition today and are severely compromised by some whitewashing interventions carried out in the 18th century. Due to the setting and choice of subjects depicted, these paintings appear to be strongly similar to the frescoes depicted in the western wing of the palace. They alternate between hilly and wooded views, populated by figures, animals of many species and mostly ruined buildings, following that typically seventeenth-century taste for fragments of temples, colonnades, towers and ancient buildings.

In this room, the anonymous author proposes an interesting sequence of small scenes of daily life in which the careful observer can grasp: isolated fishermen intent on obtaining food; women washing their clothes in the water coming from a rich waterfall; travelers urging donkeys and mules to accelerate their pace; and monks, with low shoes, intent on conversing with each other.