Bust-length portraits often populated painted friezes that decorated fifteenth- ꦏand sixteenth-century Lombard palaces. Such ensembles typically included depictions of contemporary men and women (oftentimes the patrons, among them) as well as figures from antiquity. Among the most celebrated of such ceiling cycles were those painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Palazzo in Milan (in situ) and those painted by an anonymous Lombard artist for the Golden Room in the Vimercati Palazzo in Crema (Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, inv. no. 4380-477, and Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, inv. no. P30CI).