The Tapestry Rooms

The ‘Maritime Republic’ room is connected to the former Aldobrandini Palace through the two ‘Sale degli Arazzi’ [‘Tapestry Rooms’], both of which overlook Via dell’Impresa.
The first room is used as a meeting room and features two magnificent 17th century tapestries from Brussels depicting stories of Noah (the ‘Great Flood’ and the ‘Inebriation of Noah’). Two 19th century paintings showing scenes from the Risorgimento are also on display (B. Pontremoli, 1864, and G. Vandone, 1853).

The second room is used as an antechamber for the Secretary General of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and is furnished with sofas and chairs made from carved, gilded wood, dating back to the second half of the 18th century.

Three tapestries from the ‘Alexander the Great’ series by Jan  Leyniers hang from the walls and the room is also home to two varnished, golden consoles whose legs are decorated with masks.

Both rooms feature a vaulted ceiling divided into panels and lunettes resting on a richly decorated cornice of stucco friezes .

This room leads back to the ‘Globe Room’, which connects the two buildings, giving the palace its rectangular layout with no trace of the discontinuity that characterised the work to build it.