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This fine room, housing two masterpieces by Leonardo
da Vinci, The Madonna with a Flower (The Benois Madonna) and The Madonna
and Child (The Litta Madonna), was designed by Andrei Stackenschneider
in 1858. This is one of the suite of Reserve Rooms (guest rooms) of
the Large Hermitage. The room's decoration is based on a combination
of the light-coloured walls with porphyritic and jasper columns, lapis
lazuli inlays in marble mantelpieces, and rich gilt. Worthy of note
is the decoration of the doors in the Boulle technique (inlay with
tortoise-shell and copper). Panels in the upper part of the walls
are painted by the 17th-century Italian artist Padovanino (Alessandro
Varotari); several additional pictorial panels were produced in the
1850s. The six oval medallions over the doors show portraits of field
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