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| Vincenzo Onofri Bust of a Man in Armour ca. 1500 painted terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| attributed to Antonio Lombardo Portrait Bust of a Young Woman ca. 1505 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Jörg Muskat Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress ca. 1500-1510 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Pietro Torrigiano Henry VII, King of England ca. 1509-11 painted terracotta Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Bust of a Young Man ca. 1520 bronze Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1539-40 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Fra Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1541 marble Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| attributed to Pastorino dei Pastorini Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza ca. 1547-52 bronze Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francesco Mochi Posthumous Bust of Ottavio Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza ca. 1598 marble Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| attributed to Agostino Zoppo Portrait Bust of a Scholar of Padua ca. 1550-60 bronze Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Leone Leoni Philip II, King of Spain (during his brief tenure as King of England) ca. 1555 bronze Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Antonio Calcagni Annibale Caro (poet and translator) ca. 1566-72 bronze and marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Rome
You search in Rome for Rome? Oh traveller!
In Rome itself there is no room for Rome,
a corpse is all its churches put on show,
the Aventine is its own mound and tomb.
There, where the Palatine once towered and reigned,
are medals ruined by the hands of time,
they show how more was lost to chance and time
than Hannibal or Caesar could consume.
The Tiber flows still, but its current guards
a city that has fallen in its grave –
each wave's a woman tearing at her breast.
Oh Rome! From all your beauty, all your grandeur,
whatever once was firm has fled . . . what once
was fugitive maintains its permanence.
– Robert Lowell (1963)
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| Alessandro Vittoria Portrait Bust of a Lady of the Zorzi Family ca. 1570-80 terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Johann Gregor van der Schardt Self Portrait 1573 painted terracotta Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Ridolfo Sirigatti Niccolò Sirigatti, the Artist's Father 1576 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |