PALAZZO DELLE ALBERE, Interior

The beauty of the landscapes in the park around the Madruzzo family’s villa continues in the splendid interiors, decorated with magnificent frescoes painted by the same artists that in the middle of the 16th century worked on the rooms in the Buonconsiglio Castle.

During this period, the Humanist culture was having a major impact on Trento, and the leading local families had important cycles of frescoes painted which were dedicated to the grand themes being discussed by intellectuals and scholars: the Age of Man, the seven liberal arts and the cardinal and theological virtues.

These are the themes we can see depicted on the pictorial decorations in Palazzo delle Albere, in which all the reception rooms were located in the towers on the first and second floor, where a large number of frescoes have been preserved. On the ground floor was the Grand Hall, where the finest cycle of frescoes in the villa was painted; one cycle showed the glorious undertakings of the emperor, Charles V, but, unfortunately, just a few fragments remain, while we can still admire the frescoes symbolizing the twelve months of the year....