Scenes from the Reign of Cosimo II de' Medici
by VANNINI, Ottavio, Fresco
During the renovation and extension of the Villa Poggio Imperiale under the reign of Pietro Leopoldo (1747-1792) who succeeded his father as Grand Duke of Tuscany when his eldest brother became emperor as Joseph II in 1765, the barrel vault painted in 1622-23 by Ottavio Vannini, was detached from the bearing wall and carefully shifted 11 m to the north. In 1818 it was moved once again in the same manner, this time into the addition to the northwest.
The our photo shows the present situation of the vault (called “volticina”) depicting scenes from the reign of Grand Duke Cosimo II de’ Medici who used the original room as his study.