This large octagonal room, dedicated to the memory of the Great art historian Cesare Gnudi (1910-1981), for many years Director of the Pinacoteca, hosts usually the learning activities of the museum (concerts, lectures, speeches).

On the walls are displayed some large altarpieces of the most important era of the Bolognese school.

We find Ludovico Carracci with his “Birth of the Baptist”; Domenichino with a “Prayer-beads Madonna” and an altarpiece depicting the “Martyrdom of St. Agnes”; Francesco Albani, author of a “Baptism of Christ” and of the “Madonna with Child and Saints John the Baptist, Francis and Matthew”.

Furthermore, two artworks by painters not already represented in the museum: the large canvas with “Abraham and Melchisedech” by Lionello Spada, already pupil of the Incamminaty Academy since its foundation and then at works with Ludovico and the “Madonna with Child and Saints Theresa, John and Charles Borromeo” by Carlo Cignani, member of a generation that, in the middle of 1600's has acquired the innovation of the Carraccis.