by Jon Lackman | 21 March 2006 | Renaissance
Aaron De Groft thinks that the portrait of the Duke of Mantua once attributed to Titian, de-attributed in 1938 by August Mayer, should once again be ascribed to him. “Mayer wrote … that the Duke of Mantua died only 11 days after he wrote the letter proposing to have Titian paint his portrait. The timing made the portrait a virtual impossibility … What Mayer did not realize, De Groft said, is that a forgotten archivist hundreds of years ago misread the Roman numerals recording the letter’s date.”
