Medal: Tiberio Deciano

Giovanni del Cavino

model 1549 (cast 16th century) · Bronze (copper alloy with warm brown patina). · Robert Lehman Collection

On the obverse is a portrait of the lawyer Tiberio Deciani (1509 – 1582) from Udine. The reverse depicts him kneeling in front of a seated woman (Prudence?), offering her a book. She is crowned with a laurel wreath by Justice, holding a sword and a pair of scales, and by an unidentified woman with a petasos staff. Deciani became professor of law at Padua in 1549, which was the likely occasion for commissioning this medal. This piece is a worn, sixteenth-century cast.

Artist

Giovanni del Cavino

Date

model 1549 (cast 16th century)

Medium

Bronze (copper alloy with warm brown patina).

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975