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La Chambre du Cerf The Stag Room, which marks the passage from the old to the new palace, is situated on the 4th of the Wardrobe Tower’s five storeys.. On the ground floor, are the «
ovens », in fact the room where the pope bathed. The two following
stories correspond to the wardrobes. Above the Stag Room is the Pope’s
personal chapel, dedicated to St. Michael. |
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The 14th century ceiling
is richly decorated. The secular subjects of the frescoes depict the seignorial pleasures of the day, hunting and fishing. Buried under several coats of military paint, the frescoes of the Stag Room were miraculously preserved. As in the Pope’s chamber, the tiles are a reconstruction effected on the basis of the floor discovered in the Studium of the Study Tower. Beneath a narrow strip of sky, an entire forest is painted on the walls ; tall trees of various species, bushes laden with fruit and flowers, and a parterre of tall-growing herbaceous plants and flowers. In this luxuriant natural setting, birds and animals are prey to hawkers, catching them with bird calls or decoys. A hunter lets his ferret loose on rabbit, which looks round and takes flight. Four people, fishing by different means, gather around a pool in which
pike and other freshwater fish are swimming. |
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Direct access Cour d'Honneur |
A number of painters worked on these frescoes.
This is seen in for the changes in style in which some of the characters
are depicted, for example, betwen those ferreting and the children. The
panoramic scene is painted in perspective. In the pool scene, a third
demension is suggested in the contours of most of the faces, which are,
without doubt, the work of Italian artists. Perhaps they were supervised
by Matteo Giovanetti ?
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