FEDERICO GONZAGA
MARQUESS OF MANTUA
FATHER OF "MY LADY DUCHESS'
1440-1484
Enlarged from a part of Alinari's photograph (no. 18705) of the fresco, "The Return of the Exile," in the Sala degli Sposi of the Gonzaga Palace at Mantua, painted not later than 1474 by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506). See Heinrich Thode's monograph on
Mantegna, p. 56. For a notice of the Marquess's life see note 263.
