Apollo Conducting the Orchestra of Putte

The decoration of the Music Room is divided into two parts, one dedicated to the world of allegories, the other to the real world. Apollo, the god of music, dominates the fresco on the back wall of the Room, which is splendidly laid out by Agostino Mengozzi Colonna in a manner that recalls the scheme employed by the elder Mengozzi Colonna to frame Tiepolo's The Banquet of Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia.

Apollo personally directs the orchestra of young girls (the "putte") seated in his right. Next to him, dressed in yellow, Pasquale Anfossi (1727-1797), the opera composer who was then in charge of the Ospedaletto, conducts the chorus, holding a rolled-up musical score.