The room, called “camarino” in documents due to its small size, owes its name to the mythological scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the friezes.
The intimate atmosphere is heightened by the dim light emanating from the single window and by the subjects decorated on the walls: Apollonian music, inebriation and erotism.

The mythological scenes alternate with natural landscapes. The manner in which the scenes are arranged and way they are represented recall the Roman painting that sixteenth century artists were discovering in the buried ruins of the Domus Aurea.

The scenes from Ovid include a sensual embrace between Bacchus and Ariadne, a violent episode from Apollo and Marsyas, Orpheus in hell, The Judgement of Paris, Dance of satyrs and maenads, Contest between Apollo and Pan, Dionysus drunk, Maenads tormenting a satyr.

Artists documented as having worked on the decorations are Anselmo Guazzi and Agostino Mozzanica.
The paintings were executed in around 1527, some of the first in the palazzo.

The fireplace in red Verona marble reads F II G M M V: Federicus secundus Gonzaga marchio Mantuae quintus: “Federico second Gonzaga fifth marquis of Mantua.

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