Marsilio Ficino of Florence (obverse); Inscription reading PLATONE (Plato) (reverse)

After Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli, called Niccolò Fiorentino, Italian, 1430 - 1514

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about 1485-1500

Lead

Overall: 2 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 1/4 in. (5.5 × 5.7 × 0.6 cm)

Weight: 91 g (0.2 lb.)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019

2016.64.147

Geography

Place Made: Italy, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Sculpture: Medal

Research Area

Sculpture

Not on view

Inscriptions

Obverse: MARSILIVS FICINVS FLORENTINVS; reverse: PLATONE

Course History

ARTH 48.07, Michaelangelo's Modernism, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019

Publication History

Roger Arvid Anderson, The Roger Arvid Anderson Collection, Medals, Medallions, Plaquettes and Small Reliefs, Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper and Textiles, San Francisco: Roger Arvid Anderson (published privately), design by David L. Wilson, 2015, p. 43.

Provenance

European art market; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, date unknown; lent to present collection, 2011; given to present collection, 2016.

Catalogue Raisonne

Kress, No. 268; Hill Corpus, No. 974

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