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 38
own hand wrote out the details of the subjects to be treated.These letters have been preserved, and one can hardlybelieve that those written in connection with the thirdpicture, which she wished to have placed between the twofirst, amount to forty in all, addressed directly by herselfto the… … IN THE DUCAL PALACE, MANTUA. n commissions. It is curious to relate that these same lettersfrom the Princess contained threads showing the width of thecanvas, the height and even the size of the personagesin the foreground, in order that the proportions should bethe same as in the compositions of…
Architecture · Mural painting and decoration
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