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- Artist
- Mea
(Italian, active ca. 1510 - 1520) - Title
- Battista Spagnoli (1447-1516)
- Date
- designed ca. 1513; possibly later cast
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- diam: 40 mm overall
- Credit
- Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
- Accession No.
- 1974.101
- Classification
- Medals
- Geography
- Italy
Related
Ca. 1927-39, acquired by Sigmund Morgenroth (Santa Barbara, CA); after 1947, transferred via trade to Vernon Hall (Madison, WI) ; 23 October 1974, 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. 42; no. 253
- Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 84
- Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. II: p. 101, II: no. 14
- 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. 94-95, 160, cat. no. 35
- 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. 87
- 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. 131
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