_Lorenzo Costa_ (Ferrarese: 1460-1535). _See 629._
The portrait, "warts and all," of a theologian, physician, and poet
of Mantua. So he is described under the engraving of this picture,
which is the frontispiece to a book published at Padua in 1649 and
entitled _Baptistae Fierae Mantuani Medici sua aetate clarissimi Coena
notis illustrata a Carolo Avantio Rhodigino_. The portrait, a _chef
d'oeuvre_ of a painter whose portraits are rare, was shown at the
Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1894.