Throne Room, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore
Sala del Trono or Throne Room, originally an audience room, with monumental 18th century throne in gilded wood with embroidered silk canopy and tapestry embroidered with family mottoes and badges, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The ceiling is in decorative stucco and there are 7 colossal telamones or male figures carved in wood. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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