Wall and ceiling decoration

In the palaces of the respected Florentine patrician families the ballroom was the most important of the public rooms and the place where, following the pattern of the ruling house, their glorious forefathers were evoked. The Capponi dedicated the ballroom of their palace to ancestors who had performed historic service to the state. The scenes, painted by Matteo Bonechi around 1713, were accompanied by detailed Latin inscriptions, and in the ceiling a virtuous hero in classical armour is being conducted to the Temple of Immortality.