Medal: Bust of Beatric Roverella
Unknown
ca. 1550 · Bronze (Copper alloy) · Robert Lehman Collection
The obverse pictures Beatrice Roverella, and the reverse shows a three-masted ship without sails in a stormy sea. Beatrice Roverella (ca. 1510 – 1576) was the daughter of Gerolamo Roverella, count of Montenovo and Monteleone, and she was the wife of Ercole Rangoni (ca. 1505 – 1573) from Modena. Ercole Rangoni was the count of Borgofranco; Beatrice was first married to Paolo Giulio Manfroni. The rectangular form of the medal is unusual, but is also found in some early sixteenth-century medals from Venice. The medal has been attributed to an unknown medalist working in the Veneto. The text on the reverse refers to the faith and piety of the sitter.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1550
- Medium
- Bronze (Copper alloy)
- Culture
- Italian, Modena or Venice (?)
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 1975.1.1252
