Hall of Diana and Callisto, Hall of Arts and Hall of the Metamorphoses

These halls are now the seat of the municipal library. Although not included in the paid museum itinerary they are nevertheless part of the palace and are also richly decorated. In fact, in what were once rooms for entertainments and intellectual cenacles, a refined cycle of frescoes distributed over three halls are preserved.

The first depicts Diana and Callisto and the Stories of the world upside down, in the second a very fragmentary representation of the Arts, in the third the Metamorphoses and scenes of Apollo and Daphne and Pan and Syringe. In the first hall, in particular, the World upside down illustrates the subversion of the natural order of things: the mouse captures the cat, the game the hound. The author is the anonymous “Painter of Diana and Callisto”, so named after the most important scene in the first of the three halls.