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Lodovico II Gonzaga (1414-1478), Second Marquess of Mantua 1444

Lodovico II Gonzaga (1414-1478), Second Marquess of Mantua 1444

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Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello

Artist
Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello
(Italian, ca. 1394 - 1455)
Title
Lodovico II Gonzaga (1414-1478), Second Marquess of Mantua 1444
Date
designed ca. 1447; relatively weak later cast, possibly 16th-18th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
diam: 100 mm overall
Credit
Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
Accession No.
1977.1403
Classification
Medals
Geography
Italy

Related

Ca. 1750, collection of Frisian Museum (Friesland, Netherlands); ca. 1950, sold by Schulman b.v. (Amsterdam, Netherlands) to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 19 July 1977, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. pl. 7; no. 36
  • Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 26
  • Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 5, I: no. 13
  • Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 31-32, 145, cat. no. 6
  • Hill, George Francis and Graham Pollard. "Renaissance Medals from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art." London: Phaidon Press, for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1967. no. 16
  • Pollard, John Graham with Eleonora Luciano and Maria Pollard. "Renaissance Medals. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art: Systemic Catalogue." Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2007. no. 17

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