
Il Studiolo (specifically the room build by the Duke of Monetfeltro in Gubbio in Italy, now displayed at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC) was the name I originally gave the Angel Room. According to Wikipedia a studiolo is "a secluded room intended to allow for quiet study and meditation. These rooms contained, either physically or in the form of artistic depictions, books, tomes, scientific instruments, and other symbols of knowledge…The small rooms would later be known as a hallmark of the Quattrocento, the art movement encompassing the first 100 years of the Italian Renaissance.
Studiolo it was until my grandchildren started joining me early in the morning and noticed pictures and statues of angels. Without missing a beat, they asked it they could come to the Angel Room. What could I say? When two of them made me angels for Christmas, the name 'officially' changed. After all, nothing can compete with an angel, certainly not a studiolo!!