Miscellanea

Well, let's see. It's an old sketchbook page full of notes.

We have Domenico Fetti, one of those artists who, like Egon Schiele, died young(ish) and unfulfilled. And a peculiar chimney, which I observed atop the house of Guilio Romano, genius, egomaniac and sometime pornographer, the greatest pupil of Raphael.

And also the personal motto of Isabella d'Este - my first exposure to a theme worth exploring.

Lastly, Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Manuta, who inherited one of the world's great art collections and sold it off to indulge his love of hobbits. That is, dwarfs. Or so my history teacher told me, some years ago now.
It may be true. Dwarfs were big business in the late Renaissance. But the so-called Apartment of the Dwarfs, allegedly built on a small scale for their convenience, has unfortunately turned out to be a model of the Scala Santa in Rome, built for devotional purposes. It can still be seen, sometimes, in the Gormenghast-like pile of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua.

And various people, of course.
It was all drawn with a an old-fashioned dip pen and india ink. It's a wonder I didn't make a bigger mess.