Salla delle Allegorie
The right wing, known as the “Quartiere del Volterrano” is composed of the chambers used by the Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere, including bedroom, service rooms, private chapel and dining room (indicated in green in the map above). Note in particular the frescoed ceilings in the Allegories Room where you can still admire 5 frescoed scenes from 1658 by Baldassarre Franceschini (also known as “Volterrano”) with themes alluding to the duchess's devotion and moral virtues. Vittoria della Rovere played an important role in the cultural inheritance of Florence who, as part of the House of Urbino, brought to Tuscany an invaluable collection of paintings as part of her wedding dowry to Ferdinand II Medici, including the works by Titian and Raphael still part of the city's collections.