Medal: Giovanni Antonio de' Conti

Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)

model late 15th century (possibly cast 16th or 17th century) · Bronze · Robert Lehman Collection

The obverse bears a bust of Giovanni Antonio de’ Conti, count of Urbecche and Modigliana (1459 – 1501), and the reverse shows an eagle perched on a branch with the coat of arms of the Guidi family of Romagna. The surface is worn but shows sharp details; the old cast may date from the sixteenth or seventeenth century.

Artist

Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)

Date

model late 15th century (possibly cast 16th or 17th century)

Medium

Bronze

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975