Medal: Bust of Carlo Borromeo
Unknown
ca. 1600 (possibly cast in the 19th century) · Bronze (copper alloy with dull yellowish natural patina and remains of an abraded black patina) · Robert Lehman Collection
On the obverse is a portrait of Carlo Borromeo (1538 – 1584), cardinal and archbishop of Milan (1560 – 1584), and on the reverse is his impresa, a lamb on an altar. This is possibly a nineteenth-century aftercast taken from an old, worn medal.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1600 (possibly cast in the 19th century)
- Medium
- Bronze (copper alloy with dull yellowish natural patina and remains of an abraded black patina)
- Culture
- Italian, Milan (?)
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
