Endocrine Abstracts

The picture showing a markedly virilised central figure with an infant at the breast and a shadowy figure in the background was painted in 1631 by Jose Ribera, a Spaniard living in Naples. It was commissioned by Ribera’s patron, the Duke of Alcela. The painting is of a real named person. The provenance of the painting is well known and through the Duke’s family inheritance it returned to Spain and is to be seen in the Muse Fondacion Duque de Lerma in Toledo. It can a...