BUONCONSIGLIO CASTLE, Magno Palazzo Audience Room

To complete your visit to the Magno Palazzo, I suggest you take a look at two particularly delightful rooms. The first is the Sala delle Udienze, or Audience Room

“Welcoming the prince’s guests by highlighting the virtues of the host”: this is how we might describe today the function of the frescoes in this room, painted in 1531 by the artist from Brescia, Girolamo Romanino.

If you look up at the ceiling, you’ll see the portraits of the Roman emperors, a number of important rulers of the time, and of Bernardo Clesio. Like his predecessors, the bishop used painting to underline the strong links between the prince-bishopric of Trento and the Holy Roman Empire....