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fresco includes a student athlete holding a book and a musquet, the allegory of
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In 1979 a fire destroyed part of the room and consequently the architect
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or "portico" used for business negotiations, with storerooms and offices on either side and a kitchen at the back. The living quarters were upstairs, with the rooms leading off great T-shaped central room. A well and an open staircase were placed in the
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pursued by Italy and to its ambition to become an imperial power. The second painting represents the school of philosophers. In the middle there is the thinker surrounded by his students. The painting presents traces of
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