Electrician discovers 17th-century frescoes hidden behind false ceiling at Rome's Villa Farnesina

The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, Girolamo Troppa and François Simonot.

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00:00Music

00:27I went up and the first thing I saw was the landscape and that's all.

00:34After that I saw that there was a bottle and I went to get a lamp to have more visibility.

00:43And when I turned it on, this wonder came out, in short, of these frescoes.

00:51And my first feeling, since I'm not an expert in the sector,

00:59however, it had never happened to me, it was, as you understand, of amazement, immense amazement.

01:07Music

01:19Camaratta had his students who worked in this construction site,

01:24which was basically a restoration site of the famous lodges of Raffaello,

01:29and who instead today with these new frescoes, we understand,

01:33also intervened in this sector, architectonically less representative,

01:40but very functional, which was the entrance from the secret garden of Agostino Chigi,

01:47the lodge where the banker basically consumed his daily meals.

01:52Music