. What pictures to see in America. nzo Costa wasasked to paint the portrait, but as he could not,Francia was given the commission July 29,1510. On August loth the finished picturewas delivered. Isabella writes further of thepicture: I am astonished to find out that inso short a time the artist has been able to exe-cute so perfect a work. One sees that hewishes to show the perfection of which he iscapable. It seems incredible, but later Isa-bella gave the picture of her boy to Zanimella,a gentleman of Ferrara who had done hersome service. From this time the painting dis-appeared until 1872, whe
. What pictures to see in America. nzo Costa wasasked to paint the portrait, but as he could not,Francia was given the commission July 29,1510. On August loth the finished picturewas delivered. Isabella writes further of thepicture: I am astonished to find out that inso short a time the artist has been able to exe-cute so perfect a work. One sees that hewishes to show the perfection of which he iscapable. It seems incredible, but later Isa-bella gave the picture of her boy to Zanimella,a gentleman of Ferrara who had done hersome service. From this time the painting dis-appeared until 1872, when it appeared in theChristie auction rooms, London, in the collec-tion of Prince Jerome Bonaparte. It was iden-tified by Herbert Cook as the lost portrait ofFederigo Gonzaga. The Portrait of Filippo Archinto, Arch-bishop of Milan (Fig. 71) is the first paint-ing of Titians (1477?-1576), the great Vene-tian master, to be added to the treasures ofthe Metropolitan Museum. In this portrait wehave not only a work of a famous artist but. i-io C 3o -^ 73 ?= 3 o a ^s
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