The fresco tear

Until the mid-18th century, the walls of the central hall, as well as those of the rooms still frescoed today, were decorated with illusionistic perspectives that were covered, as taste changed, by the stucco decoration we see today.

A bucolic landscape populated by statues was painted on the walls of the salon, as if the park beyond the windows extended into the building.

The fresco on display here was in fact found in this same position under the stucco during restoration work in the 1970s.

A florid female figure, originally wrapped in a red drape, stands out on a marble pedestal decorated with lion heads.
At the base and in the background, shields can be glimpsed; on the right a vase. The whole is enclosed by an ovoid frame.
The work was probably painted by one or more local painters, but the state of preservation does not allow precise attributions.