Painting, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore

Paris Bordone (5 July 1500 - 19 January 1571), Italian : Saint Jerome, oil on canvas in the Berthier Gallery, displaying the family collection of 130 paintings, in the Palazzo Borromeo, built 1632-1948 by the Borromeo family, on Isola Bella, in the Isole Borromee or Borromean Islands, on Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. The gallery was renamed in August 1797 after French general Louis-Alexandre Berthier who visited with Napoleon. The palazzo, begun 1632, was designed by Angelo Crivelli, for Carlo III Borromeo and his wife Isabella D'Adda, then completed by Carlo Fontana for Giberto III Borromeo and Vitaliano VI Borromeo. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13744413

Media ID

45399396

Size

5574px x 7087px (9.1MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen

Date

2009