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.

 

The room is reserved to the exhibition of the Museum ancient drawings: it's about more than two hundred unpublished sheets, coming from Ludovico Moscardo's very rich collection, mostly sold in 1920 about (today the drawings find arrangement in the most important museums in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.

 

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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