The Salzburg Treasure rooms
Tesoro di Salisburgo
The ceiling of the first of the Salzburg Treasure rooms, with Prudence with Glory and Time, was executed by Cecco Bravo during the reign of Ferdinando II. It demonstrates that by the 1640s Florentine decoration had reached a new magnificence in the depiction of allegory.
A document of 4 December 1638 credits the lucchese painter Pier Antonio Michi with "la pittura (che) fa nella volta dei tramezzini", surely referring to The Coronation of Juno on the ceiling of the second of the Salzburg Treasure rooms. It is also thought that Ottavio Vannini might have been involved in the production, but there is no documentary proof of this.
The first room contains treasures brought by Ferdinando III from the principalities of Salzburg and Wuzburg, where he had been exiled during the Napoleonic period. The second room contains the beautiful series of fifty-four silver-gilt bowls fromm the table of the archbishop of Salzburg. There is also a gilded silver ewer and basin that bears the stamp of Augsburg, and Ferdiando III's Necessaire containing toiletries and breakfast articles bering his initials.
The first room contains treasures brought by Ferdinando III from the principalities of Salzburg and Wuzburg, where he had been exiled during the Napoleonic period. The second room contains the beautiful series of fifty-four silver-gilt bowls fromm the table of the archbishop of Salzburg. There is also a gilded silver ewer and basin that bears the stamp of Augsburg, and Ferdiando III's Necessaire containing toiletries and breakfast articles bering his initials.