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Raffaello Maffei da Volterra (1451-1522)

Raffaello Maffei da Volterra (1451-1522)

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Lysippus (the Younger, or the Modern)

Artist
Lysippus (the Younger, or the Modern)
(active Italian, fl. 1471 - 1484)
Title
Raffaello Maffei da Volterra (1451-1522)
Date
designed ca. 1466-1476; cast 17th or 18th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
diam: 83 mm overall
Credit
Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
Accession No.
1977.1447
Classification
Medals
Geography
Italy

Related

Platt collection; after 1947, purchased by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 1977, deposited on long-term loan to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]; 1980, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

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  • Pfisterer, Ulrich. "Lysippus und seine Freunde: Liebesgaben und Gedächtnis im Rom der Renaissance oder; das erste Jahrhundert der Medaille." Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008. p. 391, no. A2

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