The Iliad Room
Sala dell'Iliade
In Medici times this room was used to play "Trucco", a kind of billiards. In 1689 Cosimo III reserved it as a private room for himself, endowing it with a chapel and decorating it with four large paintings by Giuseppe Nicola Nasini, depicting the "Novissimi", that is to say the four last moments of life: Death, Justice, the Inferno, and Paradise.
FerdinandO III removed the "Novissimi" in 1795 and included the room in the sequence that would constitute a major part of the Palatine Gallery. In 1815, upon his return from exile after the fall of Napoleon, he entrusted Luigi Sabatelli with the decoration of the ceiling (1819-1825), which depicts events prior to the Trojan War, taken from Book XV of Homer's Iliad.
At the center Jupiter orders the assembled gods to refrain from interfering or trying to influence the outcome of the Trojan War. The lunettes depict Juno, who despised the Trojans, as she tries to distract Jove with her seductions.
FerdinandO III removed the "Novissimi" in 1795 and included the room in the sequence that would constitute a major part of the Palatine Gallery. In 1815, upon his return from exile after the fall of Napoleon, he entrusted Luigi Sabatelli with the decoration of the ceiling (1819-1825), which depicts events prior to the Trojan War, taken from Book XV of Homer's Iliad.
At the center Jupiter orders the assembled gods to refrain from interfering or trying to influence the outcome of the Trojan War. The lunettes depict Juno, who despised the Trojans, as she tries to distract Jove with her seductions.