House of Street Massari

One particular detail about these frescoes is that the various groups of figures - originally around a dozen - are looking out from balconies adorned with the Mantuan style rings, the very same that can be seen in the Camera degli Sposi at the Ducal Palace. What can be seen here, therefore, is a mixture of styles, or rather the great iconography of the Gonzagas combined with a modern depiction that still indulges in the fashions of the past. Here we see a solitary youth holding a scroll with the obscured writing O PER MIO, which may be a motto that could have been associated with the commissioning family.