The Palace

Stateroom

This large room was built during the Clesian rearrangement works (1537-1539) and is the most noble and elegant of the Palace. The name Audience Room refers to it official secular function: here the bishop's vicar, more seldom the bishop himself, granted the Community’s representatives audiences to discuss the observance of legal and fiscal privileges.

The prince bishop paid particular attention to the frescos of the room: the Renaissance grotesque frieze reaches the height of refinement. Fourteen frames representing allegorical figures are fringed by couples of dolphins. The allegories – Charity, Constancy and Caution – glorify the bishop’s work. The scenes are decorated by vine shoots, playing putti, real and imaginay animals.

Bernardo Clesio's coats of arms are everywhere: a bunch of seven rods representing unity, crossed branches of palm trees (glory) and laurel (peace). The centre of the eastern and western walls are marked by Clesio's coats of arms together with the eagle and the lamb with the crossed banner symbols of the episcopal sees of Trento and of Bressanone.

The walls display portraits of people who played a relevant role in the history of the Palace and of Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme: prince bishops, scari (presidents), emperors and dignitaries.