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The article focuses on a refurbished room in the Castello di San Giorgio called Camera dello Zodiaco in Mantua, Italy. The room is one of the surviving structures of art museum commissioner Federico Gonzaga II's first building campaign. The room is situated on the second floor of Castello and is filled with decorations that is divided into two parts. Its walls are likewise covered with landscape scenes which contain objects that are difficult to determine. Meanwhile, the name of the room originated from the decoration of the vault of the Camera dello Zodiaco.

The article examines the astrological decoration of the Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo Del Te, a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy. In an article about Sala dei Venti of E. H. Gombrich, it was demonstrated that the iconography of the sixteenth medallions was based on the astrological doctrines associated with risings and settings of the extra-zodiacal constellations. This doctrine was traced by Gombrich through the passages in Bool V of the Astronomica of Marchus Manilius and Book VIII of the Matheseos Libri VIII of Julius Firmicus Maternus.