Note 211 — Chapter VIII · Gothic in the Midi

Those who visit Riom (which lies close to Clermont) should go to Aigueperse, eight miles away, to see Mantegna’s St. Sebastian and a Nativity by a brother of Ghirlandajo. As the lord of the region, a Bourbon-Montpensier—who died in 1496, had married the sister of the Gonzaga ruler of Mantua, these treasures probably came through that source. Congrès Archéologique, 1895; and 1913, p. 124, Mozac, Abbé Luzuy; p. 144, Riom, P. Gauchery; Paul Mantz, “Une tournée en Auvergne,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1886; Abbé R. Crégut, La vierge du Mathuret (Clermont-Ferrand, 1902); ibid., Les vitraux de la Sainte-Chapelle de Riom (1906); E. Clouard, Les gens d’autrefois aux XVe et XVIe siècles. (The controversy on the Madonna of the Bird is here summed up); Gondalon, Riom et ses environs (Riom, Jouvet, 1904); A. de Champeaux et P. Gauchery, Les travaux d’art exécutés pour Jean, duc de Berry (Paris, II. Champion, 1891); Camille Eulart, Le musée de sculpture comparée du palais du Trocadéro (on the vierge à l’oiseau), (Paris, H. Laurens, 1913).