Portrait, Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore

Portrait of Margherita Medici di Marignano with her children, Mannerist painting, mid 16th century, in the Margherita Medici Room, 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. Margherita Medici di Marignano was the sister of Pope Pius IV Medici and wife of Count Gilberto II Borromeo, father of Federico (left), Vitaliano and Carlo Borromeo. 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

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