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Battista Spagnoli (1447-1516)

Battista Spagnoli (1447-1516)

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Mea

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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