Article: Gian Cristoforo Romano's bust of Isabella d'Este.(Letter to the Editor)

From the director of the Kimbell Art Museum

In your review of new museum acquisitions (APOLLO, December 2004), the description of the terracotta portrait of Isabella d'Este recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum (Fig. 1) wrongly states that it 'has never been published, apparently because of doubts about its authenticity'. This was the case only up to 1973, when it was sold by the heirs of the Amsterdam-based, Swiss collector Otto Lanz (d. 1935) to the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The termoluminescence test of that year (not so 'recent') to which you refer, confirming the bust's renaissance date, was duly published in the journal Archaeometry. (1) ...

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