Word: montefeltro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jacob Epstein. Mr. Epstein, once a peddler,* now a dry-goods millionaire, will admit to a few friends that the lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted by her fellow townsman Raphael Sanzio, Mr. Epstein has letters from such authorities as Connoisseur Bernhard Berenson of Paris and Dr. George Gronau of Cassell, Germany. Mr. Epstein's agents, F. Kleinberger Inc., of Manhattan...
...director-general of everything from apple-carts to art in Italy. The citizens of Urbino lately sent a delegation to Rome and last week II Duce decided to take down, from its hooks in the Uffizi at Florence, Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...