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- Artist
- Bartolommeo di Virgilio Melioli
(Italian, 1448 - 1514) - Title
- Francesco II Gonzaga, (Marquess of Mantua as a boy)
- Date
- designed 1481 or 1484; cast from old original
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- diam: 2 3/4 in. overall
- Credit
- Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
- Accession No.
- 1977.1432
- 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]; 19 November 1979, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. no. 196, 36
- Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no. 78
- Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 80, I: no.4
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