In this room the portraits of the Sanvitale’s family members, from the end of the XVIIth century, to the second half of the XVIIIth century are preserved. The portrait of the Count Jacopo Antonio Sanvitale (dressed as Eaco Panellenio) is the masterpiece of this room painted by the famous portrait-painter Giuseppe Baldrighi (the official painter of the Borbone’s family, dukes of Parma in the second half of the XVIIIth century).
The Count wears an Arcade’s dress (as a shepherd) because in 1739 he was the founder of the Parmese Arcadia. At the sides the two oval paintings are the portraits of his father, the Count Luigi Sanvitale and his mother Corona Avogadro from Vercelli, painted by the famous painter Giovanni Maria delle Piane called the Molinaretto (at the beginning of the XVIIIth century).