Interior
Over the centuries many works of art were collected in the palace. The ceremonial hall was painted in the mid-nineteenth century by Giuseppe Lorenzo Gatteri, a fresco painter from Trieste. The fresco on the ceiling depicts Apollo on a chariot. Before World War II there was an important collection of work by the Venetian masters. The hall is reached by a richly stuccoed staircase from the left of the atrium. Three statues on the balustrade of the stairway represented sculpture, painting and architecture. One of these has been lost. Until 1967 there were four large equestrian portraits on the walls of this stairway: the Polish King John III Sobieski, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine the Austrian Emperor Leopold I and Prince Eugene of Savoy. The staircase today is hung with pictures of prominent members of the Gravisi family.
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