Melozzo degli Ambrosi, called Melozzo da Forlì, (Forlì 1438-1494) An angel playing the viola, c. 1480 Removed fresco fragment, 93.5 x 117 cm The 14 fragments with the Apostles and Angel musicians (these too exhibited in room IV) together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ. The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted by Melozzo da Forlì around 1480, shortly after the works of restoration on the church for cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the