Amerigo Vespucci occupies the next niche on the door.
Then, opposite in line, across the door, standing in two niches, side by side, are Cardinal Mendoza and Pope Alexander VI.
Then below them stand Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Spain; beneath them stands the Lady Beatrice Enriquez de Bobadilla; beside her is Charles VIII., King of France.
The first figure of the lowest pair on the door is Henry VII. of England; beside him stands John II., King of Portugal.
Then, in the same line with them, across the panel, is Alonzo Pinzon.
In the niche above Alonzo Pinzon stands Bartolomeo Columbus, the brother of the great navigator.
Then comes Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, and in the niche above, again at the top of the door, stands the figure of Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru.
Between the panels and at top and bottom of the valves of the door are ten projecting heads. Those between the panels are historians who have written Columbus' voyages from his own time down to the present day, ending with Washington Irving and William Hickling Prescott.
The two heads at the tops of the valves are female heads, while the two next the floor possess Indian characteristics.
Above, over the transom arch, looks down, over all, the serene grand head of Columbus. Beneath it, the American eagle spreads out his widely extended wings.