1. For the Banco Mediceo and its decorations, see C. J. Ffoulkes & R. Maiocchi,Vincenzo Foppa of Brescia, Founder of the Lombard School. His Life and Work (London and New York: J. Lane, 1909), 42–56; Ffoulkes & Maiocchi reproduce drawings and reconstructions of architectural elements of the palazzo as published by Agostino Caravati in:Il Palazzo del Banco Mediceo in Milano as Vol. 4 (1895)of Arte Italiana, Decorativa e Industriale (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli). Caravati’s version of the loggia (here Figure 2) was made after an 1863 watercolor by Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898). See note 14 below for the drawing of the facade by Antonio Averlino Filarete; also Maria Grazia Balzarini,Vincenzo Foppa, Introduzione di Liana Castelfranchi (Brescia: Grafo, 1997), 20–22; A. D. F. Jenkins, “Cosimo’s Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence,”Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 33 (1970), 162–170.
2. The fresco remained in situ in 1862: G. Mongeri, “La porta nella via de’ Bossi in Milano,”Perseveranza (5 December, 1862).
3. Le Vite de’ Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori e Architetti,1807–1810
4. Balzarini,Vincenzo Foppa (above, n. 1), 21.
5. J. Ingamells,The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures I (London: Wallace Collection 1985) 279.