The Grand Staircase leads to the first room of the Museum, called Room of the Ancestors, for the five paintings depicting some members of the Miniscalchi family, made by the painter Michelangelo Veronese Prunati.
Recently acquired, the “Madonna with Child and Saint John” is painted on a panel executed at the end of the 15th century by Francesco and Giacomo Francia, exponents of the Bolognese Renaissance.