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GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)
Portrait of Margherita Paleologo
c.1531RCIN 405777
This portrait depicts a fashionable noblewoman in a magnificent black dress of a pattern known as the ‘knot-fantasies’. She is probably Isabella d’Este’s daughter-in-law, Margherita Paleologo (1510–1566), at the time of her marriage to Federico Gonzaga, 1st Duke of Mantua.
