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The small rooms adjacent to the hall on the second floor display interesting 17th-century paintings from a variety of sources.
The theatrical Semiramis, the first documented artwork by Cecco Bravo, is part of the donation made by Leonetto Tintori to the City of Prato in 1993, while other paintings in the same room come from the Hospital Spedale della Misericordia and Dolce: the Good Samaritan by Nicola Malinconico, characterised by the late style of Luca Giordano, The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, by Taddeo Baldini. There is great emotional tension in the dramatic Repudiation of Agar by Mattia Preti, an expression of the artist's Roman period, but the undoubtedly most important painting in the section is the magnificent Noli me tangere by Battistello Caracciolo, a masterpiece of the Neapolitan master, profoundly influenced by the work of Caravaggio.
