Translation of an italian museum panel (University assignement) Giovanni Francesco I Brignole-Sale (1643-1694) preferred to live on this floor rather than the one below and wanted to adorn it commissioning the decoration of ceiling and walls first to Domenico & Paolo Gerolamo and Gregorio De Ferrari, with the cooperation of plasterers and "quadrature"-painters (main room, east halls, lodge), and then to Giovanni Andrea Carlone and Carlo Antonio Tavella. While Bartolomeo Guidobono took care of the west halls. Giovanni Francesco Brignole-Sale but even more his son Anton Giulio II (1673-1710) set at first the family's paintings into some of these rooms which made them look as they were meant to be exposed rather than inhabited. Anton Giulio II actually claimed the luxuriously furnished mezzanine between the two main floors as dwelling. Giovanni Francesco II (1695-1760) undertook new actions around 1740. He transformed rooms that were empity before into picture galleries. Finally, between 1842 and 1845, Antonio (1786-1863), the last of the Brignole Family, enriched the floor with a proper cycle of floorings in  polychromatic marbles featuring drawings having highly diverse content. In 1942, during the Second World War, the hall's ceiling with an ornamental fresco by Gregorio De Ferrari depicting “Fetonte dinnanzi al padre Apollo” (“Phaeton before his father Apollo”) was destroyed. Only the preparatory sketch has survived as a reminder  of the lost masterpiece.