Medal: Bartolomeo Colleoni

Marco Guidizani

model 1455 or later (possibly cast 19th century) · Bronze · Robert Lehman Collection

A portrait of Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400 – 1476), a celebrated Venetian condottiere is on the obverse, and a nude man sitting on a cuirass and holding a plumb line is on the reverse. A terminus post quem for this medal is given by Colleoni’s appointment as commander of the Venetian forces in 1455; this specimen is a late aftercast, possibly from the nineteenth century.

Artist

Marco Guidizani

Date

model 1455 or later (possibly cast 19th century)

Medium

Bronze

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975