have made sketches of the works in situ. Indeed, one
scholar has associated the female profile that appears on
the Getty plate, as well as on the others listed below, to
the profile of a woman with horns in the fresco of Saint
Anthony and Saint Paul in the Vatican Borgia Apart
ments.^5 It seems more likely, however, that another
image in these apartments—the woman with bowed
head and loose head scarf holding a distaff in the fresco
depicting the Visitation—might have influenced the
type of female profile that appears on a plate in the
Louvre (figs. 20B — c). Although it has been suggested,
though never proven, that Pinturicchio was married to
the daughter of a ceramist from Deruta, it seems unlikely
that he or his colleague, Perugino, would have collabo
rated with local potters. Nevertheless, some circulation
of sources, possibly drawings from drawings, must have
existed.
The images, often virtually identical in pose and ap
pearance, were presumably reproduced from a workshop's
20B Bernardino Pinturicchio (Italian, 1454-1513). The Visitation (detail),
1492-94. Rome, Vatican Palace, Borgia Apartment, Hall of the Saints.
Photo: Vatican Museums.20c Lustered plate with a female bust. Deruta, first quarter of the sixteenth
century. Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam: 44 cm [IJYS in.). Paris, Musee du
Louvre, Cluny inv. 2430.114 Lustered Plate with a Female Bust