Moritz Thausing has striven in his Wiener Kunstbriefe to show that the coat of arms on the marble bas-relief in the Sacred and Profane Love is that of the well-known Nuremberg house of Imhof. This interpretation has, however, been controverted by Herz Franz Wickhoff.
Cesare Vecellio must have been very young at this time. The costume-book, Degli abiti antichi e moderni, to which he owes his chief fame, was published at Venice in 1590.
"Das Tizianbildniss der königlichen Galerie zu Cassel," Jahrbuch der königlich-preussischen Kunstsammlungen, Funfzehnter Band, III. Heft.
See the Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino at the Uffizi; also, for the modish headpiece, the Ippolito de' Medici at the Pitti.