The wing on the first floor of the Palazzo, where the now-lost Mansi picture collection was once displayed, houses the Picture Gallery, made up of the 83 paintings donated to the city in 1847 by grand duke Pietro Leopoldo II of Lorraine after the annexion of Lucca to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
The gallery provides a remarkable sampling of the Italian and Flemish painting schools from the 16 th to the 18 century. The first three rooms hold paintings of the Tuscan (Pontormo with his famous Portrait of a young man, Domenico Beccafumi, Agnolo Bronzino, Rutilio Manetti, Jacopo Vignali, Pietro Testa), Venetian (Veronese, Tintoretto) and Neapolitan schools (Salvator Rosa, Luca Giordano); the last room houses works by foreign (Borgognone) and Flemish artists (Paul Bril).
