Museo di Arte Antica: Page 2
Room 15 is known as the room of the Scarlioni. This room was used as an audience hall and for secret councils. This room is divided into two parts. Statue of Gaston de Foix Lying in Death by Bambaia, the great Funeral monument of the Bishop Bagaroto by Andrea Fusina are kept in one section and Pieta Rondanini by Michelangelo is kept in the other section. The rooms leads to a wooden walkway crossing the Courtyard of the Fountain through a small door at the end.
Room 16 is known as the Upper Green Room. During the dukedom great receptions were held in this room. The room is divided into four separate sections. The Cassone delle Torri, the Coretto of Torrechiara are kept in the first section. Marriage chests, beds, wardrobes and bureaus are exhibited in the two sections. In the last section there are Venetian furniture of the 18th century, paintings of the Procession of the Imperial Ambassador Clerici by the Florentine Antonio Cioci and Portrait of a Great Lady.
Room 17 has the frescoes of the Lombard school such as Allegorical figures, Episodes from the Life of Jesus, the Stories of Griselda. The two sections of Room 16 is entered from this room.
Room 18 hosts Passalacqua Casket of 1613, paintings by Morazzone. From this room, the last section of Room 16 is entered.
Room 19 has the 18th century furniture of the Piedmontese chest of drawers, Lombard arm chairs, chest of drawers representing Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius.
Room 20 is known as the Golden Room. Madonna and Child between Saints and Angels by Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini and Poet Laureate, the Madonna in Glory among Saints by Andrea Mantegna are kept in this room.
Room 21 hosts the works by Lombard painters from the 15th and 16th centuries such as Deposition, St Benedict giving Alms, St Jerome and St Roch by Bergognone, two Holy Bishops, St Sebastian, the Madonna of the Book, the Madonna Trivulzio, St Francis and St John the Baptist by Foppa, a Madonna by Bernardino Luini, Portrait of a Woman by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, St Michael by Sodoma and the works of R. Moretto, Bramantino and De Predis.
Room 22 has some Mannerist paintings.
Room 23 has Lombard paintings from the Chapel of the Tribunale di Provvisione, the works by Salmeggia, Nuvolone, Figino and Pentecost by Morazzone.
In Room 24 there are works by Procaccini, crests and medallions coming from the house given to Lucia Maliani by Galeazzo Maria Sforza in 1474 and Martyrdom of St Sebastian by A. Campi.
Room 25 is the Lombard Region Room. The shows held in this room are set up according to various themes.
Room 26 hosts St Michael Archangel by Cerano, St Charles Fastings by Danilo Crespi, two Storms by Alessandro Magnasco, Portrait of a Young Man by Fra Galgario, St Francis in Ecstacy by Francesco del Cairo, Storm at Sea by F. Guardi.
Rooms 27, 28, 29 and 30 have ceramics, gold objects and ivory. In Room 30 there are statues attributed o G. di Balduccio da Pisa, portraits of the Visconti and Sforza family members.
Room 31 has the items of Italian and foreign pottery belonging to 18th and 19th centuries.
Room 32 hosts golden, bronze and ivory objects such as Gothic monstrancw of 1456, Stories of the Passion, Two Marys at the Sepulcher, the Console Magno, 6th century Byzantine art and Murano glass objects. The rooms on the lower ground surrounding the Rocchetta are devoted from the 2nd to the 8th century Hellenistic and Coptic textiles and the Antique Musical Instruments Museum. This museum has 641 pieces of string, plucked, keyboard and wind instruments.
