Gardner, Edmund Garratt, 1869-1935 · London : Duckworth ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 136
-cordia outside the Porta Castiglione of Bologna.Vasari (who wrongly dates it 1490) declares that this was Francias first picture ; but it is evidently the work in hiB dedication of the volume to G. A. Bentivoglio, says : * Eiusimftginem intra cubiculum tuum habere voluisti, depictam in… … IKANrr A iMnrnjAiT of bautolom.meo BrAXCuixi Niitioual Giillery To I(((•<■ jiiiiit 82 FRANCESCO RAIBOLINI 83 of an accomplished and practised master. The por-trait of the kneehng donor, Bartolommeo Felicini, whocommissioned the painting as a thankoffering for hisrecovery from ilhiess, is…