The portraits of twenty eight wise men, scattered during the 17th century, have been temporarily reunited and coming back to the Studiolo of Duke Federico da Montefeltro, in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino.
Around 1476, Federico da Montefeltro had a small studio within the Ducal apartment: the lower part of the walls was covered with wood inlays crafted by the Florentine workshops of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano.
In 1631, when the Della Rovere family stopped existing, the Church became the owner of the feud of Montefeltro, and Cardinal Antonio Barberini removed the 28 portraits of wise men from the Duke’s Studio and took them to his family’s palace in Rome. The portraits were first reunited at Palazzo Barberini until the end of the 18th century when a quarrel between two branches of the family (the Barberinis and the Colonna di Sciarras) brought the portraits in different places.
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