Battle Scene

Giovanni Bernardi da Castel Bolognese

model ca. 1540 (cast 16th or 17th century) · Copper alloy with light brown patina. · Robert Lehman Collection

This plaquette depicting a battle scene exists in other versions in the Bode Museum, Berlin (a rectangular work), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Louvre, Paris. Some bear the monogram IO(hannus) B(ernardi) F(ecit). The composition may have derived from an engraved crystal plaquette that Giovanni Bernardi made for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese II. This aftercast from the sixteenth or seventeenth century has some loss of detail.

Artist

Giovanni Bernardi da Castel Bolognese

Date

model ca. 1540 (cast 16th or 17th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with light brown patina.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975