An inlaid armorial panel above the door carries Federico's personal coat of arms: a horseface shield surmounted by a coronet and flanked by the initials FE DUX, the whole encircled by a wreath of oak leaves. The shield is composed of alternating diagonal gold bands and blue stripes, with a small black eagle in its "honor point" signifying the 1228 investiture by the Holy Roman emperor of the counts of Montefeltro. The shield is quartered by the large crowned black eagle in a gold field of the city of Urbino, and the central vertical stripe bears the insignia of Federico's position as a standard bearer of the church—the crossed and tied gold and silver keys of Saint Peter surmounted by the papal triple tiara.

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