\paperw4260 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This altarpiece was commissioned from Boltraffio in 1500 by Girolamo Casio, a Bolognese poet, for a chapel in the church of the Miseri
cordia at Bologna. The kneeling figure of the client can be recognized as a portrait of Girolamo Casio and those of the Madonna and Child as CasioÆs wife and one of their children. The other figures are Saints John the Baptist and Sebastian.