Leonello d'Este (obverse); Three-Headed Prudence (reverse)
Pisanello, Italian, 1395 - 1455
about 1441
Bronze
Overall: 2 5/8 × 2 5/8 × 5/16 in. (6.7 × 6.7 × 0.8 cm)
Weight: 92 g (0.2 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.11
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on obverse, lower left: LEONELLVS; top: MARCHIO; lower right: ESTENSIS; inscribed, on reverse, top: OPVS; lower right to left: PISANI.PICTORIS
Course History
ARTH 16, Art, Architecture and Money in the Early Modern Period, Lauren Jacobi, Spring 2013
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
History 44.02, Arts of Power, from Augustus to the Sun King, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.
Renaissance and Mannerist Plaquettes and Medals from the Collection of Roger Arvid Anderson, Class of 1968, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19-November 21, 2013.
Publication History
Adrian W. B. Randolph, Engaging Symbols: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in FIfteenth-century Florence, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, p. 90, fig. 2.3.
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. 12-13.
Provenance
Cyril Humphris, London; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, about 1988-1990; lent to present collection, 1998; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress, No. 6; Hill Corpus, No. 24
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