Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) (obverse); A City Threatened by the Hand of God (reverse)
Medals of Savonarola, Italian, about 1492 - 1498
about 1494-1497
Bronze with gilding
Overall: 2 5/16 × 2 3/8 × 5/16 in. (5.9 × 6 × 0.8 cm)
Weight: 97 g (0.2 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.12
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
On view
Inscriptions
Obverse: HIERONXMVS SAVO FER VIR DOCTISSS ORDINIS PREDICHATORVM; reverse: GLADIVS DOMINI SVP TERAM CITO ET VELOCITER
Course History
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
ARTH 48.07, Michaelangelo's Modernism, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
ARTH 27.02, Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
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
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. 50-51.
Provenance
Michael Hall, New York, New York; sold to Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, date unknown; lent to present collection, 1992-1995 and 2011; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Kress, No. 282; Hill Corpus, No. 1076
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