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The
room has been reserved to the presentation of the character
from whom mostly come the Museum collections.
The room is organized in a way to suggest a concrete
idea, even if limited, of the famous "home museum"
of the Veronese learned man, author, among other things,
of important publications for the town history, of which
the originals in the author's own hand are kept here.
Andrea Voltolini, Ludovico
Moscardo's portrait (1681).
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Besides
the portraits painted by Andrea Voltolini (1643-1720)
and the sumptuous canopy bed, in the room there is prepared
an expositive structure centred upon the presence of
the " piece of furniture of the devil " (second
half of the XVIc.), coming from the "Wunderkammer"
of Francesco Calceolari, a Veronese chemist of the XVIc.,
whose collection was later bought by Ludovico Moscardo.
"Piece of furniture of the devil".
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The "Moscardo
museum" was a sort of microcosm, where art and
nature met to provoke the astonished curiosity of
the visitor.
Unfortunately in 1912 a good deal of collections,
which already belonged to Calceolari and then to Moscardo,
were given by the Miniscalchi family to the Museum
of Verona, since they didn't realize the unity with
the rest of the collections more chiefly artistic.
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