Medal: Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano

Fra Antonio da Brescia

model before 1514 (cast 19th century) · Bronze · Robert Lehman Collection

This is one of eight medals ascribed to the medallist Fra Antonio da Brescia, which depictws sitters from Padua, Treviso, Verona, and Venice. A portrait of Girolamo Savorgnan or Savorniano (1466–1529), defender of the city of Osopo for Venice against Emperor Maximilian I in 1513–14, decorates the obverse. On the reverse is a seated man holding a model of the city Osopo in his hand and being crowned by Victory. This specimen is a nineteenth-century aftercast.

Artist

Fra Antonio da Brescia

Date

model before 1514 (cast 19th century)

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Italian, Venice

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975