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....At the procession's end, in the courtyard of the Palace and on the walls of the Salone dei Cinquecento (as it is now called), there were paintings of Cosimo's building projects, his fortifications and his possessions. Here, as on the arch, were references to Cosimo's birthsign, Capricorn, stressed because it was to remind onlookers of the birthsign of Cosimo's favourite spiritual ancestor, the Emperor Augustus.