The Dining Room

A geometric, Classicist interior
with walls covered with paintings depicting landscapes of Rome and
Venice – by Jan Bogumił Plersch – inspired by etchings which were
popular at the time. On the main wall, visitors will be able to
contemplate the View of Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, while on the opposing wall the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City, and on both sides of the eastern window – Views of St Mark’s Square in Venice. Non-painted wall spaces are decorated with flower motifs. On one end of the longer axis of the room is a porte-fenêtre, and on the other – a marble fireplace, above which hangs a mirror. On the mantelpiece of the fireplace is a marble bust of Madame du Barry,
Louis XV’s mistress, by a French sculptor Augustin Pajou (1734–1809),
and on the sides – two candlesticks with crystals. Inside the
fireplace – two Classicist firewood racks with grills. On the opposite
side of the room, on a column, stands a marble, octagonal krater vase with a bas-relief skull – a copy of an ancient sculpture from the Vatican collections.

Beyond the rococo-style armchairs and chairs, the room’s furnishing
comprises two Baroque inlaid commodes, on which two marble busts are
placed: Athena by Johannes Schultz, made in Rome in 1787, and
an 18th-century copy of a popular Roman sculpture thought to be the
portrait of Cicero (the original is displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in
Florence).