Ceiling decoration
by POCCETTI, Bernardino, Fresco
The painted ceiling of the Salone in the Palazzo Capponi depicts the deeds of the Capponi from 1406 to 1508.
In addition to history paintings of ruling nobility there are occasionally cycles of other kinds of families, such as the paintings of the Capponi family’s services to the Republic of Florence that Bernardino Poccetti painted in the Palazzo Capponi in 1585. The choice of themes can be understood as an expression of love for their native city, for whose prosperity the Capponis’ ancestors had also been prepared to sacrifice their lives.