ROMANO, Gian Cristoforo
(b. ca. 1465, Roma, d. 1512, Loreto)

Door of the studiolo (detail)

c. 1501
Marble
Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

The door of the studiolo of Isabella d'Este in the Palazzo Ducale four tondi with figures carved in relief. One of them shows a a semi-nude figure with two books on her head and a skull beneath her foot, identified as an allegory of Fortune or perhaps the Muse Clio.




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