Visitors standing at the centre of the hall and looking up will see the fine wooden ceiling, an important example of the artistic tastes of the period, completed by the master engraver Andrea Cavazza between 1545 and 1546 with the painters Lodovico Brancolino and Alberto Fontana. Festoons of flowers and fruit and small rosettes and diamond shapes recall the great feats of the House of Este, embellishing the classically inspired coffered wooden structure. A fine frieze connects the ceiling to the painted decoration, alternating architectural features and classical decor, triglyphs and metopes, with symbols of the city, the coat of arms with cross and the drills used to dig the artesian wells.