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According to a description written for publication by Antonfrancesco Cirni, he also designed many of the costumes for the famously elaborate wedding festivities of Ortensia Borromeo in March 1565, which were held in the Vatican and included a tournament in the Belvedere courtyard.

Such duties were often expected of a Renaissance court painter.

The costumes are carefully recorded in a series of anonymous etchings, some probably based on Clovio's design drawings.