. The painters of the school of Ferrara. t finish it, because Don Alfonso is occupying histime, et sempre li sta sopra.^ In the followingDecember, the painter fell into some disgrace with theDuke for having accompanied Alfonso in a disreputablenocturnal adventure, and, perhaps, retired for a while toMantua.^ Roberti died in the summer of 1496, theportrait being still unfinished. Don Alfonso wrote tohis sister on January 4, 1497 : The picture whereinis the likeness of the most illustrious lord, your fatherand mine, which maestro Ercole had begun, and forwhich some days ago you asked from maestr
. The painters of the school of Ferrara. t finish it, because Don Alfonso is occupying histime, et sempre li sta sopra.^ In the followingDecember, the painter fell into some disgrace with theDuke for having accompanied Alfonso in a disreputablenocturnal adventure, and, perhaps, retired for a while toMantua.^ Roberti died in the summer of 1496, theportrait being still unfinished. Don Alfonso wrote tohis sister on January 4, 1497 : The picture whereinis the likeness of the most illustrious lord, your fatherand mine, which maestro Ercole had begun, and forwhich some days ago you asked from maestro FrancescoCastelli, I am sending to your ladyship by thosemessengers who brought me the fish, and, if it had beenbetter and more precious, I should have sent it to youall the more gladly. 1 Cf. Lnzio, I ritratti d^hnhella (VUstc, p. 347. 2 Campori, op^ cit., pp. 573, 574. Tlie lajroons of Mantua werefatuous for fish, which the (lonzaga upej to send as presents totheir friends in other cities. Kraucesco was the ErCOT-K T H E ( <) N (J !?: K T X;ili()iijil (iiillerv /(I face jMif/r )8 ERCOLE DE ROBERTI 59 One of Ercoles later pictures is the impressive andpowerful Deposition from the Cross, painted for thechurch of San Domenico at Fcrrara and now in thepossession of Count Blumenstihl (with an apocryphalsignature of Ercole Grandi and a fictitious date), withits somewhat stolid but admirable portraits of thedonors; the figures of David and Judith above, typesof Christ, in His victory over death, and Mary, in herprevention of the ruin of her people, recall the similarlyplaced David and Samson in the earlier picture fromRavenna. To this same epoch in Ercoles career maybe assigned the Concert becjueathed by Mr. Salting tothe National Gallery, a singularly attractive exampleof fifteenth-century genre painting, which is sometimesregarded as a youthful work of Lorenzo Costa. Ournational collection is fortunate in the possession of twoother authenti
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