The Hall of Hannibal by Jacopo Ripanda (c. 1510) in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums. It’s dedicated to some episodes of the Punic Wars, and takes its name from the image of Hannibal on the central wall, a partly naïve and fantastic representation.

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1. Jacopo Ripanda (Bologna, 15th century – Rome, c.1516) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance era.

   His works were mainly undertaken in his home town of Bologna, and in Rome, as a result of his numerous papal commissions for frescoes in churches and Vatican palaces.

   The Capitoline Museums (Italian: Musei Capitolini) is a single museum separated among three main buildings in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. His fresco in the *Hall of Hannibal* is located in the Palazzo dei Conservatori building, built in the Middle Ages for the local magistrates on top of a 6th-century BC temple dedicated to Jupiter “Maximus Capitolinus”.

   Of all the rooms in the 15th-century Palazzo dei Conservatori, this is the only room that has maintained its original proportions. The frescoed decoration dating back to the first decade of the 16th-century and traditionally attributed celebrates episodes of the Punic Wars in four scenes; underneath runs a long frieze with niches containing busts of Roman generals.

   [Hall of Hannibal via Musei Capitolini](http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/appartamento_dei_conservatori/sala_di_annibale)