Painting gallery

A painting gallery is a space for the exhibition of paintings.
==History==
===Villa Auditore===
During the Renaissance, the Villa was heavily damaged in a Florentine attack. When the Italian Assassin Domenico Auditore bought it sometime after 1321, he renovated the building and included a painting gallery inside.Assassin's Creed II – Database: Villa Auditore Over a century later in 1454, Domenico's descendant Mario began decorating the room, taking advantage of his brother Giovanni's connections in Florence to import fine art.Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy – Italian Wars: Chapter 3 – Mario Auditore
From 1476 to 1499, Mario's nephew Ezio displayed commissioned portraits of his assassination targets after he killed them. He also showcased pieces of Renaissance artwork bought from art merchants in several cities during his travels. Through his friendship with Leonardo da Vinci in particular, Ezio was able to gather a number of his works, including the Annunciation, Lady with an Ermine, and the Portrait of a Musician.Assassin's Creed II However, all the paintings were either destroyed or stolen by the Borgia following the siege of Monteriggioni in 1500.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
After Leonardo was abducted by Hermeticists in 1506, his apprentice Salaì revealed to Ezio that one of the paintings looted after the Villa attack, , was not actually Leonardo's work, implying that he had sold one of his own paintings as Leonardo's. Despite this revelation, Ezio remained fixed on reclaiming the work from where it was kept in Duke Alfonso d'Este's estate outside Ferrara.Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance – A Roll of the Dice
===Tiber Island headquarters===
After the Assassins obtained an old storeroom on Tiber Island in Rome from Fabio Orsini, they refurnished a room to house a painting gallery. Ezio once again contacted local art merchants and decorated the place with more paintings, all of which were the works of Raphael. As he had done in the Villa, portraits of primary assassination targets were also displayed in the same gallery.
==Behind the scenes==
Several paintings which Ezio could buy both before and after settling to Rome were historically created at a later time. For example, was born in 1489 and painted in 1530, yet Ezio could acquire this painting as early as 1481.
Although Salaì hints that Portrait of a Lady was done by him, it is currently attributed to , who collaborated with Leonardo during his stay in Milan. It is thought to portray , Ludovico Sforza's wife. Additionally, Salaì says that two of Leonardo's works, and , were burnt during the fall of Monteriggioni on 2 January 1500, however, these two works were painted between 1505 and 1516.
After Ezio rescued Leonardo from his captors, the artist told him that he meant to repaint the Saint John lost in the Villa fire,Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance – The Temple of Pythagoras suggesting that in the world of Assassin's Creed, the two paintings historically created between 1505 and 1516 were both copies of the lost originals.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed II 
*Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
**The Da Vinci Disappearance 
*Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy 
==References==
Category:Art
Category:Facilities
Category:Ezio Auditore da Firenze's collections