Portrait of Alberto III Pio  1512

Alberto Pio, lord of Carpi in Emilia, was born in 1475 and was an accomplished scholar. He spent most of his life outside his own domains, though he was recorded in Carpi in 1512, the year apparently inscribed on the painting. He died in exile in 1531. [url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/possibly-by-bernardino-loschi-portrait-of-alberto-pio]Read more... [The N...