A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . ted at Urbino may possibly remaindoubtful. It has been usual to consider him the author of severalamongst the portraits of celebrated men collected by Duke Federigoin one of the rooms of his palace. These, described by BernardinoBaldi,4 became at a comparatively recent period divided as heirloomsbetween the Roman families of Barberini and Sciarra. The latterseries was purchased for the Campana Collection, now in Paris, andcomprised portraits of Plato, S. Thomas, Bessarion, Virgil, Solon, 1 Divina Proporzione, cap. Ivii., par
A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . ted at Urbino may possibly remaindoubtful. It has been usual to consider him the author of severalamongst the portraits of celebrated men collected by Duke Federigoin one of the rooms of his palace. These, described by BernardinoBaldi,4 became at a comparatively recent period divided as heirloomsbetween the Roman families of Barberini and Sciarra. The latterseries was purchased for the Campana Collection, now in Paris, andcomprised portraits of Plato, S. Thomas, Bessarion, Virgil, Solon, 1 Divina Proporzione, cap. Ivii., part i, p. 18.[Now in the Pinacoteca.] Though seriously injured some years since, the true character of this piececould be discerned. Since then it has been damaged in various additionalways, so that a true opinion can now hardly be formed. The figure is only seento the knees in a sort of frock of a yellowish tone ; the background having beenoriginally blue. The tone of the whole was of a low key, tending to olive.* Descrizione del Palazzo Ducale d Urbino, 1587. • ^.
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