Historical, Biblical and mythological black figures are depicted in works such as portraits of the kings of Abyssinia and Ethiopia, painted in the sixteenth century by Cristofano dell’Altissimo for Cosimo I de’ Medici as part of a series of paintings dedicated to illustrious men of the time; Albrecht Dürer’s Adoration of the Magi, in which one of the three kings has unmistakably African features; the mythological tale with Perseus Freeing Andromeda, which Giorgio Vasari described as Piero di Cosimo’s best painting and sees a curly-haired Black musician in the foreground; and the trio of commoners painted by Justus Suttermans in his Madonna ‘Domenica delle Cascine’, la Cecca di Pratolino e Pietro Moro.