Medallions with profile portraits of prominent figures from the classical world enjoyed a long tradition in architectural decoration in Renaissance Europe. Prints of coins and medals, cameos, books and catalogues of illustrious individuals provided the iconographic sources for the subjects of these tondos, who are difficult to identify due to the absence of inscriptions.
Barrón, Eduardo, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura., Imprenta y fototipia J. Lacoste, Madrid, 1908, pp. 220, n.309.
Blanco, Antonio, Catálogo de la escultura, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 1957, pp. 160.
Blanco, Antonio; Lorente, Manuel, Catálogo de la escultura. Museo del Prado, Patronato Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1981, pp. 160.
Coppel, Rosario, Catálogo de la escultura de época moderna. Museo del Prado: siglos XVI-XVIII, Museo del Prado; Fundación Marcelino Botín, Madrid, 1998, pp. 406,407.
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Inscribed in black.
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