Italian wall decorations of the 15th and 16th centuries : A handbook to the models, illustrating interiors of Italian buildings, in the Victoria and Albert museum, South Kensington (1901)
Victoria and Albert Museum · London : Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 22
urse with the writers and great artists wholived at her Court, acquired a taste for art, and begancollecting objects of art and books. Then soon findingthis Castello too cramped and not suitable for her require-ments, she removed to an old Palace of the Bonnacolsi, thelast captains of the people.… … IN THE DUCAL PALACE, MANTUA. 3 fitted up for her and arranged according to her tastes, with theadvice of the artists, who had become her intimate friends. We know from the correspondence of the Marchioness,preserved at the Archivio Gonzaga, that from 1495 to 1539Isabella never ceased to search with…
Architecture · Mural painting and decoration
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