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176 DESIGN ASCRIBED TO MANTEGNA
fame.—Your slave and servant, Jacopo d’Atri.”1
Naples, 17th March 1499.
A drawing, now in the His de la Salle collection
in the Louvre, of a statue of Virgil, covered with
laurel and holding the JEneid, in the style, although
not by the hand, of Mantegna, was probably executed
by Isabella’s order, but her project was never carried
out, and Mantua was left without a monument of her
greatest son. The only memorial erected in Isabella’s
lifetime was the fine terra-cotta bust of Virgil, which,
in 1511, the doctor Battista Fiera placed on an arch
in front of the church of S. Francesco, together with
a bust of the Marquis, and of the Carmelite poet
Battista Spagnuoli. The arch was destroyed by the
Austrians in 1852, but the three busts are still
preserved in the Museum of Mantua.
1 A. Baschet, Gazette d. B. Arts, 1866.
fame.—Your slave and servant, Jacopo d’Atri.”1
Naples, 17th March 1499.
A drawing, now in the His de la Salle collection
in the Louvre, of a statue of Virgil, covered with
laurel and holding the JEneid, in the style, although
not by the hand, of Mantegna, was probably executed
by Isabella’s order, but her project was never carried
out, and Mantua was left without a monument of her
greatest son. The only memorial erected in Isabella’s
lifetime was the fine terra-cotta bust of Virgil, which,
in 1511, the doctor Battista Fiera placed on an arch
in front of the church of S. Francesco, together with
a bust of the Marquis, and of the Carmelite poet
Battista Spagnuoli. The arch was destroyed by the
Austrians in 1852, but the three busts are still
preserved in the Museum of Mantua.
1 A. Baschet, Gazette d. B. Arts, 1866.