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 26
summer.But the three new rooms at the top of the Paradiso became the object of her predilection, and it is amidst suchsurroundings, the real paradise of Isabella dEste, thathistorians must place her portrait. The first room was dedicated to music, the favouritepursuit of Isabella. The cupboards… … IN THE DUCAL PALACE, MANTUA. 5 description of which is to be found in the Princesss corre-spondence. Round the walls of this first room were reproducedviews of towns in intarsia of rare woods, and on one of thepanels figured a few bars of a Strambotto composed byOkenghem to words dictated by…
Architecture · Mural painting and decoration
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