↑ Quoted in Joost-Gaugier 1985, 58. The instructive value of portrait collections during the Renaissance, an aspect of "civic humanism", was explored with particular reference to Poggio Bracciolini by Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, "Poggio and Visual Tradition: 'Uomini Famosi' in Classical Literary Description" Artibus et Historiae 6.12 (1985), pp. 57-74; Bracciolini is quoted p58.
↑ On this associative and commemorative practice among Roman literati see E. Bartman, "Sculptural collecting and display in the private realm", in E.K. Gazda, ed. Roman Art in the Private Sphere (Ann Arbor) 1991, pp 71-88.
↑ Pliny's Natural History, xxxv.9-10; for the instructive power of images to Romans, see P. Gregory, "'Powerful images': responses to portraits and the political use of images in Rome" Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) pp 80-99
