Medal: Alfonso de Brandeligi Trotti
Unknown
ca. 1520–30 (possibly cast in the 17th century) · Bronze (Copper alloy with brown patina under a worn layer of black lacquer or wax). · Robert Lehman Collection
On the obverse is a portrait of Alfonso de Brandeligi Trotti; the reverse is blank. Trotti was a composer from a distinguished Ferrarese family. In 1514 he sent a motet (“In Te Speravi”) to Pope Leo X. Trotti’s epitaph is in San Bernardino Church in Ferrara. This old aftercast is possibly from the seventeenth century.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1520–30 (possibly cast in the 17th century)
- Medium
- Bronze (Copper alloy with brown patina under a worn layer of black lacquer or wax).
- Culture
- Italian, Ferrara
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
