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Leonello d'Este
Antonio Pisano (called Pisanello) (Italian, about 1395–1455)
Italian
Renaissance
about 1440–50
Object Place: Europe, Italy
Medium/Technique
Metal; cast bronze (90% copper, 5% zinc, 4% tin)
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 70 mm (2 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession Number57.174
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
Catalogue Raisonné
Hill 27.
Kress 7.
DescriptionCircular medal of Leonello d'Este (born 1407, marquess of Ferrara 1441-50). Pierced at top.
Obverse: Profile bust of Leonello d'Este looking to the proper right; inscribed at edge "MARCHIO ESTENSIS LEONELLVS" [words separated by olive branches between].
Reverse: Two nude figures, aged and young, holding baskets of olive branches above and flanked by rain clouds over covered vessels (Isaiah XIV.3); inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
Obverse: Profile bust of Leonello d'Este looking to the proper right; inscribed at edge "MARCHIO ESTENSIS LEONELLVS" [words separated by olive branches between].
Reverse: Two nude figures, aged and young, holding baskets of olive branches above and flanked by rain clouds over covered vessels (Isaiah XIV.3); inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "MARCHIO ESTENSIS LEONELLVS" [words separated by olive branches between].
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
Reverse: Inscribed at edge "OPVS·PISANI·PICTORIS".
Provenance1957, sold by Mark M. Salton-Schlessinger (b. 1914 - d. 2005), New York, to the MFA for $1,800. (Accession date: March 14, 1957)