The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

model ca. 1495 (possibly cast 16th century) · Copper alloy with greenish brown natural patina. · Robert Lehman Collection

This plaquette represents the second in a series of four, all devoted to the Life of Christ, which Moderno produced beginning in the early 1490s. The Lehman version is an old aftercast with some loss of detail, possibly dating from the sixteenth or seventeenth century. In facture and color it is close to catalogue entry No. 139.

Artist

Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

Date

model ca. 1495 (possibly cast 16th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with greenish brown natural patina.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975