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- Artist
- Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello
(Italian, ca. 1394 - 1455) - Title
- Lodovico II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua
- Date
- designed 1447-1448; cast 19th-20th century
- Medium
- Silvered bronze
- Dimensions
- diam: 3 7/8 in. overall
- Credit
- Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
- Accession No.
- 1973.119
- Classification
- Medals
- Geography
- Italy
Related
In or after 1947, possibly purchased in France* by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 24 December 1973, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]. *The preface for the 1978 Catalogue of The Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals states that the core of this collection was purchased in France in 1947, but the object file contains no records specific to the purchase of this work.
- 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. 25
- 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
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