Medal: Sixtus IV

Lysippus the Younger

1471 · Bronze (Copper alloy with warm brown patina and remnants of black wax or lacquer) · Robert Lehman Collection

The obverse depicts Pope Sixtus IV (Francesco d’Albescola della Rovere, 1414 – 1484; r. 1471 – 84), and the reverse shows the seated Sixtus IV being crowned by Saint Francis and Saint Anthony of Padua. The medal was made upon the occasion of the election of the pope in 1471.

Artist

Lysippus the Younger

Date

1471

Medium

Bronze (Copper alloy with warm brown patina and remnants of black wax or lacquer)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975