Malosso Hall: Jan Sons

The Hall receives the name of the artist who painted it: Giovan Battista Trotti known also as "Il Malosso", painter originally from the Cremona area who gave his service to the Farnese court in 1604. His production for the Palazzo was abundant but, due to the Scialbatura (a plaster tecnique) carried on by the borbonic court, only three walls, although modified by the restoration of Borghesi in 1834, are still visible nowadays. The scenes portrayed follow the classical, mythological themes: Jupiter crowning Bacchus (west), the sacrifice of Alcesti (north) and Cicrce who brings back the human form to Ulysses's friends (east); thematically connected to the subjects realized by Carracci in the Hall of Love during the past years. The room was completed in the southern part by two landscape painting realized by the flemish painter Jan Sons in 1605/6.