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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



THE COGOLETO. 

 See page 224 



Xo. 3. THE CAPRIOLO PORTRAIT (page 220). 



Ibis was engraved from the Giovian portrait, by Alipramlo Capriolo, for the Ritratti 

 dedi Cento Capitani lllustri, published at Rome in 1596, and was reproduced by 

 Carderera and Navarette in their celebrated works on Columbus, as well as by many 



authors who accepted it as genuine. It dosely re 

 sembles the engravings in Giovio s Elogia, but is con 

 sidered a more accurate and artistic piece of work. 



Xo. 4. THE CRISPIN DE PAZ PORTRAIT (platen;. 



The portrait that hung in the luxurious palace of the 

 archbishop of Nocera ou the banks of Lake Coino was 

 engraved for another work, Eft egies Regnum et Prin- 

 cipium, Cologne. 1598, by Crispin de Pa/, or Crispin de 

 Passe, as the name is sometimes given, and as a work 

 of art is considered to surpass both the woodcut in the 

 Elogia of Giovio, and that of Capriolo. But the artist 

 added a hood to the Franciscan frock, placed an octant 

 in the hand, and hung a chain around the neck of 

 Columbus. The appearance of the latter is explained 

 by Carderera, ou the ground that contemporary 

 writers said he constantly wore over his monkish habit 



a chain of gold that was given him by Guacauagari, the cacique of Hispaniola. 

 A copy of the Giovian portrait, with the face reversed as it would appear in a 



mirror, was engraved for Peter von Opmeer s Opus Chrouographicum, 1611. 



Xo. 5. THE FLORENTINE PORTRAIT (page 221). 



While a portrait that hangs in the Ufrizi Gallery, at Florence, is claimed by some 

 writers to have been the original Giovio, there seems to be indisputable evidence 

 that it is a copy of that work, 

 painted about the middle of the 

 sixteenth century by Christofano 

 dell Altissimo, at the order of 

 Cosmo di Medici. It is painted 

 on a panel of wood, and is con 

 sidered an admirable work of art. 



When Thomas Jefferson was min 

 ister to France, in 1784, he engaged 

 an artist to copy &quot; what was consid 

 ered by the most competent critics 

 to be the best authenticated like 

 ness of Columbus.&quot; The Altissimo 

 picture was selected, and the copy 

 hung in Mr. Jefferson s library at 

 Monti cello until the settlement ot 

 his estate. It then passed into 

 the hands of Mr. Israel Thorndike, 

 who presented it to the Massachu 

 setts Historical Society, Boston, THE NAVA RETTE. 

 November 26, 1835. Mr. Jefferson see page 226. 

 wrote of this portrait as follows: 



&quot; The Columbus was taken for me from the original, which is in the gallery of 

 Florence. I say from the original, because that it is well known that in collections 

 of any note and that of Florence is the first in the world no copy is ever admitted, 

 and an original existing in Genoa would be readily obtained for a royal collection 

 in Florence. Vasari names this portrait, but does not say by whom it is made.&quot; 



