Antonio della Leccia (obverse); Mercury (after Diomedes and the Palladium) (reverse)
Niccolò di Forzore Spinello, called Niccolò Fiorentino, Italian, 1430 - 1514
about 1470
Bronze
Overall: 3 3/8 × 3 7/16 × 5/16 in. (8.6 × 8.7 × 0.8 cm)
Weight: 192 g (0.4 lb.)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Roger Arvid Anderson Collection - 250th Anniversary Gift, 1769-2019
2016.64.41
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Sculpture: Medal
Research Area
Sculpture
Not on view
Inscriptions
Obverse: LECIA . FLO M . ANTONIO . DELA . Reverse: NIF FLO/MERCVRIO.
Course History
ARTH 84, Media and Meaning in Renaissance Sculpture, Adrian Randolph, Fall 2013
HIST 43.02, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2019
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
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
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.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-July 28, 2002.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hoood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 2009.
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.
The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 7-December 3, 2000.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, listed p.73.
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. 38-39.
Provenance
Sotheby's London, Coins, Medals and Paper Money, October 6, 1989, lot 207; Cyril Humphris, London, October 1989; sold Roger Arvid Anderson, San Francisco, California, 1989; lent to present collection, 1993; given to present collection, 2016.
Catalogue Raisonne
Hill Corpus, No. 925
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