Room 11

The setting-up of this small room considers the most recent destination of its adjacent room – the building’s Chapel, moved there in 1761 and decorated by Matteo di Ferdinando Arrighi.
This artist was commissioned to achieve the plaster altar dedicated to St. Philip Neri and other plaster frames, such as the surviving cherub flanked by garlands on the door’s lintel, indicating the entrance to the old chapel. The Vision of St. Philip Neri painted by Orazio Fidani and Lorenzo Lippi in 1655-1656 to celebrate Prato gaining the title of city and diocese in 1653, once held in the ancient chapel of this building (the current wedding room), was placed here since 1761 before being lately moved at the ground floor in Palazzo Pretorio Museum.