Medal: Bust of Marco Sicco

Antonio Abondio

model ca. 1560 (probably cast 17th century) · Bronze (copper alloy with dark brown patina over warm brown patina.) · Robert Lehman Collection

Antonio Abondio was an Italian medallist, who active in Italy and later for the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague. On the obverse is a portrait of Marco Sicco, who may possibly be identified as a Milanese statesman, and on the reverse is his coat of arms. Note that the E from AET is missing. The work is probably a seventeenth-century aftercast.

Artist

Antonio Abondio

Date

model ca. 1560 (probably cast 17th century)

Medium

Bronze (copper alloy with dark brown patina over warm brown patina.)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975