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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



constant communication with Columbus at that time. Malipiero s manuscripts, and 



presumably this picture, passed into the possession of Senator Francesco Longo. 



The Gradenigos were the heirs of Lougo, and it was from them that the Caviliera 

 Luigi Rossi, a steward of the Duchess of Parma, purchased 

 the portait. Shortly before Rossi s death the picture was 

 sold to a Signer Goudolfi, who had it restored and repaired, 

 the badly damaged head and cap of an Indian at the right 

 being cut out, and the canvas made square instead of oblong. 

 FromGondolii it passed to Signer Antonio della Rovere, from 

 whom it was bought by Capt. Frank H. Mason, United States 

 consul-general at Frankfort, for Mr. James W. Ellsworth, of 

 Chicago. The signature 

 and date read, &quot;Lawrens 

 Lotto f. 1512. Lotto was 

 a painter scarcely second 

 to Titian. He was born 



about 1480, and reached the summit of his fame 



about 1522. The chart which is represented in the 



portrait is very nearly like the Ruysch map pub 

 lished in the Rome editiooi of Ptolemy of 1508. This 



portrait was selected as the model for the face of 



Columbus upon the World s Columbian Exposition 



souvenir coin, and was awarded a silver medal at 



the Columbian Historical Exposition at Madrid as 



being the most authentic likeness of the discoverer. 



THE EINGK. 



See page 230. 



No. 12. THE NAVARETTE PICTURE (page 222). 



M. Navarette, in his Relations des Quatre Voyages 

 de Christopher Colomb, Paris, 1828, uses as a frontis 

 piece a beautiful engraving of the admiral, evidently 



copied from the portrait of Columbus in the ministry of marine at Madrid. It 

 resembles the Capriolo, however, and wears the same costume, but the face is turned 

 to the right instead of the left. The engraving has an inscription, which in English 

 reads &quot; Drawn on stone from an original and contem 

 porary portrait belonging to His Catholic Majesty, by 

 Pedro Columbus, Duke of Veragua, a great-grandson of 

 the illustrious navigator.&quot; 



No. 13. THE CANCELLIERA PORTRAIT (page 223). 



The family of Fidele Colombo, which sprang from the 

 brother of Dominco, father of Christopher Columbus, 

 owned what was known as the Castillo di Cuccaro, an 

 ancient castle near the village of Cuccaro, in the Mont- 

 serrat, Italy. In the hall of this castle was an alleged 

 portrait of Columbus, which is said to have been painted 

 by Antonio del Rincon, a famous Spanish artist contem 

 porary with Columbus, and to have been brought to 

 Italy from Spain by Baltazar Columbus, second cousin of 

 the discoverer, who in the reign of Philip II contested 

 in the courts with other relatives for the rights, titles, 

 and dignities of Christopher Columbus. This portrait 

 was accepted as genuine by Napione, and was used by 

 him to illustrate his Della Patria di Colombo (Florence, 1805), and by Francisco 

 Cancelliera in his Notizie di .Vristofero Colombo (Rome, 1809). It is signed by Jean 

 Patrini, and was engraved by Joseph Callandi. Patrini was a painter of the Milanese 

 school and left many works of distinction. This portrait was given by the last 



THE GEEOORI. 

 See page 230. 



