. The painters of the school of Ferrara. calpainter under his direction, and then to forward it tothe master selected, with the most minute directionsas to scenery, light, size, and measurements—leavingnothing but the execution to the artist. I^onardowas naturally too busy. Bellini did not like thesubject proposed to him, and felt he could do nothingwith it. After leaving him to his own devices (as longas he kept to an antique theme with an allegoricalmeaning), the Marchesana at last obtained a smallpicture of the Nativity.^ To Perugino she sent along instruction, beginning: Our poetic inventi
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. calpainter under his direction, and then to forward it tothe master selected, with the most minute directionsas to scenery, light, size, and measurements—leavingnothing but the execution to the artist. I^onardowas naturally too busy. Bellini did not like thesubject proposed to him, and felt he could do nothingwith it. After leaving him to his own devices (as longas he kept to an antique theme with an allegoricalmeaning), the Marchesana at last obtained a smallpicture of the Nativity.^ To Perugino she sent along instruction, beginning: Our poetic invention,which I greatly desire to be painted by you, is aBattle of Chastity against Lust, that is, Pallas andDiana fighting manfully against Venus and Love *;a most complicated fantasia^ with a vast number offigures and innumerable details—the painter beingallowed to reduce the number of figures, but forbidden 1 Cf. Kristeller, Andrea MafitegtM (ed. Strong), pp. 349,350. a Cf. Mrs. Ady, hahella dEnte, I. pp. 341-38. « • •• • •. .iiid-rsnn Francia THE be\tivo(;lio altakpikce San Giacomo Ma-yit)^, li<.lgna Jojan l><iij ^ COSTA AND FRANCIA 91 to introduce anything of his own invention.^ Aftermuch delay, she received the picture, the Triumph ofChfistity, in June, 1505, a very unworthy work, whichshe frankly told the painter would inevitably sufferby the comparison with Mantegnas creations.^ Thin^ stood thus with the camerino when Mon-signor Anton Galeazzo Bentivoglio visited Mantua intlie summer of 1504, and undertook to get his kins-woman a picture from a Bolognese artist. OnNovember 1, he \vrote that he had arranged it, anddesired her fantasia in order to have a work worthy ofits place in the room. Isabella at once wrote to Paridefor the iiivenzione^ and was delighted with what hepromptly sent her: If only the painters,* she says, could be as rapid as the poet! The inventionwas sent with full directions to Costa, the painterselected by the Archdeacon who intend
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