Interior
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- Location: Interior
Some of the finest decorations in the residence can be found in the King’s apartments. The ceiling of the Squires Room was frescoed by Giambattista Crosato and Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna with mythological scenes and the walls were decorated with paintings by Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli (1772-78) of deer hunts set between the building and Moncalieri. The Myth of Diana is depicted on the vaulted ceiling of the King’s antechamber and the overdoors were decorated by Pietro Domenico Olivero. The Hall of Honour is an elliptic shape and it has three sets of windows giving perspective views of the four avenues. Juvarra himself asked the brothers Giuseppe and Domenico Valeriani to paint the frescos, which feature the Triumph of Diana and allegorical scenes.
In the Queen’s apartments, there are very interesting ceilings in the Antechamber (where there is a fresco of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia that was painted in 1733 by Giambattista Crosato) and the Queen’s bedroom, where Charles André van Loo painted Diana at Rest (1733).
In the Queen’s apartments, there are very interesting ceilings in the Antechamber (where there is a fresco of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia that was painted in 1733 by Giambattista Crosato) and the Queen’s bedroom, where Charles André van Loo painted Diana at Rest (1733).
