ILLUSTRATIONS

Elisabetta di Montefeltro, Duchess of Urbino. After the picture by Andrea Mantegna in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)Frontispiece

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Il Castello di Sinigaglia. (Photo Alinari)10

Pope Julius II. From the picture by Raphael in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)40

Portrait of a lady, her hair dressed in the manner of the fifteenth century. From the picture by ? Verrocchio in Poldo-Pezzoli Collection, Milan. (Photo Alinari)44

A lady of the fifteenth century with jewels of the period. (Photo Alinari)48

Count Baldassare Castiglione. From a picture in the Torlonia Gallery, Rome50

Hair dressing in the fifteenth century. Detail from the fresco by Pisanello in S. Anastasia of Verona. (Photo Alinari)54

Cardinal Bembo. From a drawing once in the possession of Cavaliere Agricola in Rome62

Elisabetta Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino. From a lead medal by Adriano Fiorentino in the British Museum. By the courtesy of G.F. Hill, Esq.72

Emilia Pia. From a medal by Adriano Fiorentino in the Vienna Museum. By the courtesy of G.F. Hill, Esq.72

Hair dressing in the sixteenth century. After a picture by Bissolo. (Photo Alinari)76

Portrait of a lady in mourning. After the picture by Pordenone in the Dresden Gallery. (Photo R. Tammé)84

S. Martin and S. Thomas with Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino, and Bishop Arrivabeni. After the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Duomo of Urbino. (Photo Alinari)88

Baldassare Castiglione. After the picture by Raphael in the Louvre.120

Madonna del Belvedere. After the fresco by Ottaviano Nelli in S. Maria Nuova, Gubbio190

Madonna del Soccorso. After the gonfalone by a pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo in S. Francesco, Montone196

Raphael, aged six years. From a picture once in the possession of James Dennistoun216

Raphael. After the portrait by himself in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)220

Madonna and child. After the picture by Giovanni Santi, in the Pinacoteca of Urbino. (Photo Alinari)224

Ecce Homo. From the picture by Giovanni Santi in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)226

S. Sebastian. After the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)228

Margherita "La Fornarina." After the picture by Raphael called La Donna Velata in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)230

Margherita "La Fornarina." After the spoiled picture by Raphael in the Galleria Barberini in Rome. (Photo Anderson)232

The Sposalizio. After the picture by Raphael, once in the Ducal Collection at Urbino, now in the Brera, Milan. (Photo Alinari)240

Isabella of Aragon. After the picture by Raphael in the Louvre246

St. Sebastian. From the picture by Timoteo Viti in the Palazzo Ducale, Urbino. (Photo Alinari)254

Francesco Maria I. della Rovere. After the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (From the Ducal Collection.) (Photo Alinari)314

Venetian wedding-dress in the sixteenth century. After the picture called "La Flora" by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)316

Detail of the Urbino Venus. Supposed portrait of Duchess Leonora, from the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)320

The girl in the fur-cloak. Possibly a portrait of Duchess Leonora of Urbino. After the picture by Titian in the Imperial Gallery, Vienna. (Photo Franz Hanfstaengl)324

Duchess of Urbino, either Eleonora or Giulia Varana. After the picture by Titian in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Painted ca. 1538. (Photo Brogi)328

Leo X. After the picture by Raphael in the Pitti Gallery, Florence. (Photo Anderson)352

Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. After the picture by Bronzino in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (Photo Alinari)366