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But prior to 1500, or down to 14992, let us say, the romanticism of the Spaniard, like that of other Europeans, was ministered to not so much by books as by tales passed from mouth to mouth: tales originating with seamen and reflected in the names on mariners' charts; and tales by landsmen recorded in the relations, reports, and letters of missionaries, royal envoys, and itinerant merchants.

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Painting in the Marine Museum, Madrid, reproduced in Avery's History of the United States.

No portrait of Columbus is known to have been painted from life or during his lifetime. Of the supposed portraits now existing, tin-earliest is a wood engraving in Elogia Vi r or uni Illustrium, by Paulus Jovius, published in 1575. This is said to have been copied from a painting in a collection of portraits at the Villa of Jovius on Lake Como. The collection has been dispersed, and the Columbus portrait (if it ever existed) has disappeared. This woodcut doubtless was the model for an engraving by Aliprando Capriolo, published in Home in 159G. On these two engravings have been based the greater number of the many imaginary portraits of Columbus.

Two other portraits of considerable antiquity are known. The Florence Gallery contains a painting attributed to Cristofano dell' Altissimo. said to be of a date earlier than 1568. A copy of this portrait was made for Thomas Jefferson in 1781, and is now in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. The National Library, Madrid, possesses the oldest canvas representing Columbus known to exist in Spain. This is the so-called Yanez portrait, which was purchased in 1763 and named in honor of its former owner.

The Marine Museum portrait, here reproduced, was painted probably sometime in the nineteenth century, and is evidently a composite, based on these early likenesses, and on data as to the personal appearance of Columbus gathered from his biographers. Though it possesses no claim to authenticity, it is probably the most satisfactory representation of the Columbus of imagination and tradition.

The subject is discussed fully in Volume u of Justin Winsor's Xarrative and Critical History of America.

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