Aldobrandini Salon

It houses fragments of frescoes that date back to the oldest phases of the building complex (1507), when it was the "sala pulcherimma depicta". The room was enlarged in the 19th century by the architect Andrea Busiri Vici and the ceiling and floor were rebuilt again after a collapse in 1956, caused by an extraordinary snowfall. In the center is a large bichrome marble sculpture from the Antonine age, found in Albano in the mid-nineteenth century, depicting a Centaur and on the walls a rich series of archaeological sculptures, among which some sarcophagi stand out. Among the paintings it is necessary to mention the "Salome with the head of the Baptist", one of Titian's first masterpieces, the "Double portrait" by Raphael and the "Sleeping Endymion" by Guercino. The large panel with the "Deposition" by Giorgio Vasari, the altarpiece with the "Sacrifice of Noah" painted by Ciro Ferri, the delicate "Landscape with rest during the flight into Egypt" by Pier Francesco Mola, one of the great