The Forefathers Room

The Grand Staircase leads you to the first room of the Museum, called "Room of the Ancestors", because of the five paintings depicting some members of the Miniscalchi family, by the painter Michelangelo Veronese Prunati.
The most well-known character is Luigi Miniscalchi, whose portrait is on the left wall (the last one).
He was the first President of the Academy of Agriculture, Sciences and Letters, established in Verona in 1769.

Recently acquired, the “Madonna with Child and Saint John” is painted on a panel executed at the end of the 15th century by Francesco and Giacomo Francia, exponents of the Bolognese Renaissance.

Inside the showcase, you can also admire the precious objects in ivory and bone, dated between the 15th and 17th century, including part of a hexagonal box with sloping lid attributed to the “Bottega degli Embriachi” (Venice, first quarter of the 15th century), a small replica in female version of the classic Cavaspina (17th century) and three chalices in turned ivory, engraved and perforated (German era).

Madonna with Child and Saint-John
In the painting you see Saint-John who reveals Jesus’ fate, represented by the cross and the goldfinch.
In the Christian tradition, the goldfinch is the bird that got injured in an attempt to remove the thorns from the crown thorns of Jesus.