View of the Udienza Pubblica
by COLONNA, Angelo Michele, Fresco and stucco
This salon on the first floor of the Palazzo Pitti has wall decorations by Angelo Michele Colonna and Agostino Mitelli. The decoration shows trompe-l’oeil architectural perspectives (“paneling”).
In the Palazzo Pitti commission the Colonna-Mitelli collaboration developed a successful model that the pair was able to translate to other situations. The best example of this is the painting, from a few years later, in the salone of the d’Este summer residence in Sassuolo, near Modena.