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The
room was decorated towards the half of the XIXc with
stuccoes and gold-leaf gilding. In the ceiling corners
are allegorically represented the instruments of four
"Arts" (Astronomy, Painting, Literature and
Architecture), which coincide with as many medallions
with portraits of characters famous in the arts represented,
but the lack of inscriptions doesn't allow the sure
identification.
A partial view of the room.
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The
room is reserved to the exhibition of the Museum ancient
drawings: it's about more than two hundred unpublished
sheets, coming from Ludovico Moscardo's very rich collection,
mostly sold in 1920 about (today the drawings find arrangement
in the most important museums in the world).
The drawings which make up the Museum surviving collection
belong to the XVI - XVIIc and they mostly include Venetian
draftsmen: Falconetto, Jacopo Bassano, Pordenone, Paolo
Farinati, Alessandro Maganza, Palma the Young are just
some of the draftsmen we can meet visiting the room.

Jacopo Bassano (1510-1592),
Bust of old man with turban.
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Some
examples of their art are here represented by the Bust
of old man with turban by Jacopo da Ponte, called
Bassano (1510-1592), and The torment of Polycrates
of Samo by Paolo Farinati (1524-1606).

Paolo Farinati (1524-1606),
The torment of Polycrates of Samo.
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