COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



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descendent of Fidele Colombo, about forty years ago, to Count Roaely do Lorgues, 

 of Boulevard San Germain, Rue Chanel, No. 16, Paris, the author of the well-known 

 eulogistic life of Columbus. 



Xo. 14. THE BELVEDEKE PORTRAIT (page 223). 



In 1579, according to written evidence, Ferdinand I of Austria had a copy painted 

 of the portrait owned by Archbishop Giovio. In 1610 it passed into the possession 

 of the Archduke Ferdinand, his son, Count of Tyrol, who was also a nephew of 

 Charles V of Spain. For many years it hung in the castle of Ambras, near Inspruck, 

 in the Tyrol, but in 1805 it was returned to Vienna, where it now appears in one 

 of the several magnificent collections of the Austrian capital. It is a miniature 

 in oil, painted upon a small panel of wood. De Conches says it is very old, as 

 old as the Altissimo at Florence, and was done by an accomplished artist, but 

 it bears no signature. It was engraved for FraukTs German poem, &quot; Cristo- 

 foro Colombo&quot; (Stuttgart, 1836). 



No. 15. THE 11OHKBECK PORTRAIT. 



A young artist named Carl Rohr- 

 beck, of Milwaukee, has produced a 

 very excellent full-length portrait of 

 Columbus in oil, from photographs of 

 other and more famous representa 

 tions of the discoverer. 



Xo. 16. THE CEVASCO PORTRAIT. 



A portrait was presented to the city 

 of Genoa some years ago by Commen- 

 dador Cevasco, that bears signs of an 

 tiquity and resembles the accepted 

 likeness of the discoverer, but the art 

 ist is unknown. It hangs in the royal 

 palace. (See page 224). 



Xo. 17. THE BOSSI PORTRAIT (page 224). 



The Bossi portrait of Columbus as a 

 boy was first published in 1596, as an 

 engraved medallion to illustrate a 



biography of Columbus. It has no claim to genuineness, but was used by Bossi 

 in La Vera Patria e la Vita di C. Columbo. The same face appears beside that of 

 Vespucci in a frescoed frieze in the municipal palace at Genoa. 



Xo.18. THE ARAMBURU PICTURE (page 224). 



A work of art, but a pure fancy, is the head of Columbus painted by Ricardo 

 Aramburu in 1892. It is owned by Don Francisco de Paula Domiuguez of Seville, 

 and has been published widely in the illustrated papers of Spain. 



An ancient portrait in oil, on a small panel, very similar to the Yanez in the 

 National Library of Spain, hung for many years in the palace of the Marquis de Mai- 

 pica at Madrid. It lacks the sadness of the Yauez face and has more hair, but it is 

 of the same dimensions, and de Conches pronounces it a copy. The inscription on 

 the background is the same. Carderera says : 



11 Although the painting is almost three hundred years old, it is unfortunately but a 

 copy, somewhat shorter, of the portrait placed in the series of illustrious men in the 

 gallery of Florence, and, like that of other different persons, scattered through the 

 city, was copied, with slight alterations either in the costume or in the age, and of the 

 same size, during the third part of the sixteentli century and the beginning of the 



THE MELLADO. 

 See page 231. 



