Stucco Room, Room of parade, Antechamber of the Apartment of the Prince of Piemonte
First antechamber of the apartment, it has been realized at the beginning of 1700 for the Prince of Piemonte, Vittorio Amedeo Filippo, first son of of Vittorio Amedeo II, that died when he was only 16, in 1715. The decoration is in stucco, always a work of the Somasso and at the four corners the initials of the Duke surrounded by an ouroboros and surmonted by the victory trumpets and the crowns , with a festoon with oak leaves that decorates all the highest part of the walls. In the room there are not any other traces of decoration.
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The Ouroboros
It is represented iconographically as a snake in the action to bite its tail, it is the symbol of the eternity creating a circle of death and rebirth. Often the image is accompanied from the sencente En to pan (One, All) and placed side by side to the Gods and to the symbols of the time. Starting from the Renaissance the image has great fortune and used from princes and gentleman for their own medals. With the Christianity it will be replaced by the image of the linear time that it begins with the Creation of the world and finishes with the Universal Judgment. Filippo Juvarra uses the same symbol in the decoration of the Time of the staircase of Palazzo Madama, where, the ourobouros surrounds the initials of Maria Giovanna battista the second Madama Reale.