Description: Inscribed below the portrait: SEBASTIANVS / CONCA / MATVS GAIETAE DIE / VIII IANVARII MDCLXXX / VIVIT. Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 27 and 563.
Fama is a rather common figure as protector of the artists, supposed to help to spread their Fame to posterity. Cf. Nos. 11 Creccolini, 13 Cambiaso, 15 Annibale Carracci, 76 Lucas van Leyden, 78 G. B. Passeri, 98 Marco da Siena, 109 Giovanni De Vecchi, 114 Antonio Viviani, 128 H. Van den Broeck and 154 Perino del Vaga. (Sparre) [Bjurström, "Nicola Pio", 1995]

Foto: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum 1992

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