Blas de Prado: La Sagrada Familia con San Ildefonso, San Juan Evangelista y el maestro Alonso de Villegas, Museo Nacional del Prado, oil on canvas, 209 x 165 cm. The only autographed work by the painter, signed in 1589.Pedro Ángel: Portrait of Alonso de Villegas at the age of 49. Flos sanctorum, Toledo, 1588. Universidad de Salamanca, Biblioteca General Histórica. The footnote, entitled "To the reader" is written by Villegas himself, and it reads "to eliminate the damage [of many pirated copies], I enlisted the diligent silverworker Pedro Ángel to create this portrait of me, which is like my own signature, and as such anywhere it appears the image will be understood that the portrait was created at my request.
Alonso de Villegas Selvago, also known as Selvago, which may also have been a second surname, of Genovese origin (Toledo, 1533 - ib., January 23, 1603)[1] was a Spanish ecclesiastic and writer.
^Se suele atribuir a este autor una fecha de deceso bastante posterior a causa de la confusión a que dan lugar numerosos [1], documentados por Sánchez Romeralo
