Abstract
A painting from the second half of the 16th century depicting a female bust in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum has long been considered a Florentine work. It was not until the beginning of the 21st century that it was linked to the Flemish school, and in particular to the workshop of Frans Floris. In this essay, however, it is associated with another lesser-known Flemish contemporary, Bernaert de Rijckere, who was an important artist at that time. It is the series of five tronies in the National Museum in Warsaw that helps in this identification and allows us to consider other iconography for these female heads in relation to the Sibyls.
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